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.
e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton
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