<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Amsterdam Booklaunch of Geert Lovink, Sad by Design, On Platform Nihilism<div class="">Pluto Press, London, 2019</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Date: June 18, 2019, 5 PM</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Where: @Droog, Staalstraat 7A/B, Amsterdam</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More on the location at <a href="http://www.selfdesign.nl/" class="">www.selfdesign.nl</a>.</div><div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: center;">Contact: <a href="mailto:yara@imagesociety.nl" class="">yara@imagesociety.nl</a></span>, <span class="" style="text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:arina@imagesociety.nl" class="">arina@imagesociety.nl</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The book will be for sale at the event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Geert Lovink will give an introduction to the book and have a dialogue with Miriam Rasch (Institute of Network Cultures) about the background of the different chapters.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The event will be closed by the presentation of the musical collaboration between John Haltiwanger and Geert Lovink called ‘We Are Not Sick’. John Haltiwanger will present several newly composed theory songs of the upcoming album and will do a brief presentation about the custom instruments driving the songs and the sloganistic 'ambient theory machine' that works with key words and phrases taken from the Sad by Design essay, as heard during the opening and closing of the event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/" class="">https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The table of content can be found here: <a href="http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/05/15/just-out-the-english-edition-of-the-sad-by-design-book/" class="">http://networkcultures.org/geert/2019/05/15/just-out-the-english-edition-of-the-sad-by-design-book/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>