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The wretched of the screen

By Hito Steyerl

Book information

Publisher
Sternberg Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781934105825, 1934105821
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2536983 bytes)
Series
E-flux journal.
Pages
200\101
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2020-01-07 12:01:35

Description

In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. 'The Wretched of the Screen' collects a number of Steyerl's landmark essays from recent years in which she has steadily developed her very own politics of the image. Twisting the politics of representation around the representation of politics, these essays uncover a rich trove of information in the formal shifts and aberrant distortions of accelerated capitalism, of the art system as a vast mine of labor extraction and passionate commitment, of occupation and internship, of structural and literal violence, enchantment and fun, of hysterical, uncontrollable flight through the wreckage of postcolonial and modernist discourses and their unanticipated openings.  Read more...

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