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A plea to reclaim the internet from addictive platform capitalism, from the author of
Sad by DesignHowever often you delete apps from your phone, the seduction of the
platform draws you back. There is a rising disaffection with &20platform&21
culture&13with megacorporations such as Google and Facebook that provide the
foundational software for others to use, and to which we are almost all addicted.
What can be done against it?In Stuck on the Platform, Geert Lovink&13whose work
has been championed by Jodi Dean, Bernard Stiegler and Eva Illouz, among
others&13diagnoses this condition and suggests exit strategies. Analyzing the toxic
symptoms of platform capitalism, Lovink proposes assembling a techno-social exodus
movement campaigns to break up monopoly platforms the rebuilding of the internet
as a public infrastructure and the removal of certain corporations from internet
governance bodies.Geert Lovink (born 1959) is a Dutch media theorist and author of
Uncanny Networks (2002), My First Recession (2003), Social Media Abyss (2016) and
Sad by Design (2019).