Interviews and Press
Print interviews and articles about my work
Chutidet Methichutikul, "They say technology is a 'friend!'?: When technology may destroy the value of human life", The101, 8 January 2025
Inge Beekmans, “If Jeff Bezos doesn’t eat the Mona Lisa, who else will?”, Diggit Magazine, 1 December 2024
Laurens Bluekens, “Ziek van Gemak”, HP/De Tijd, 25 August 2024
Claudia Penteado, “Technology exacerbates human nihilism, says American philosopher”, Valor, 8 February 2024
Oliver Bergh, “The meaning behind the meaningless grind of life”, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 17 December 2023
Hidenobu Mori, “A technical philosopher and a game AI developer talk about the ideal relationship between generative AI and engineers, and the perspective required to realize it”, Codezine, 12 September 2023
Yin Qinglu, “The Pandemic of ‘Mad Literature’: Despair and Hope in Nonsense”, Interface News, 29 August 2023
Hata Kazuhiro, “Technology is useless and irrational, and behavioral economics infringes on freedom -- the forefront of the ‘philosophy of technology’”, Note.com, 28 June 2023
Michaela Nesvarova, “A philosopher’s job is to make people miserable”, UToday, 27 June 2023
Mariza Tavares, “Is it healthy for technology to mediate health?”, Globo, 22 June 2023
Tom Grosfeld, “The scattered time behind the screen”, Het Financieele Dagblad, 1 June 2023
Tom Grosfeld, “How we can make Marcuse’s big dreams of freedom come true”, Vrij Nederland, 18 April 2023
Xi’an Reading Club, “Facing nothingness and looking for ‘nihilism’”, QQ.com, 27 October 2022
Zhang Ziwei, “Preface to the Chinese Translation of Nihilism”, Douban, 19 October 2022
Tjerk de Reus, “How much difference will there be between you and your virtual self?”, De Nieuwe Koers, 9 June 2022
Junichi Ikeda, “Modern People Continue to Dream on Blue Pills: Nihilism and Technology Book Review”, Wired Japan, 9 March 2022
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, “Reasons Why I Don’t Care: Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz”, Nikkei, 2 October 2021
A. Trevor Sutton, “Have Steve Jobs and his gadgets made us less human?”, The Christian Century, 1 October 2021
Watabe Tanuke, “How can we recapture the ‘relationship between modern technology and humans’ in Nietzsche's nihilism philosophy?”, CodeZine, 11 August 2021
Rebecca Yanke, “The Year We Stop Believing: How ‘We Will Come Out Stronger’ Has Become an Epidemic of Nihilism”, El Mundo, 1 February 2021
Steve Denning, “Dealing with Fresh Critiques of Agile”, Forbes, 12 July 2020
Bart Brown, “Soon everything will be... (1) completely different (2) just the same again”, Mare Leids Universitair Weekblad, 16 June 2020
Wes de Val, “The Nihilist Smiled: Nolen Gertz on Nihilism Right This Moment”, 032c Magazine, 21 April 2020
Joe Humphreys, “Why Nietzsche wouldn’t go near social media”, The Irish Times, 12 December 2019
James Poulos, “Netflix and Nil: Why Being Online Makes Us Nihilists”, The New Atlantis, Winter 2019
Ansgar Allen, “Nihilism - Nolen Gertz”, Full Stop, 14 November 2019
Vincent Bonger, “The nihilism of Netflix”, Mare Leids Universitair Weekblad, 31 October 2019
Cate McCurry, “Public’s drive to spread fake news ‘eroding’ humanity”, Yahoo! Finance, 11 July 2019
Alexandre Lacroix, “Can machines act morally?”, Die Zeit, 20 May 2018