e-flux journal: The Wretched of the Screen (Sternberg Press / e-flux journal) - Softcover

Hito Steyerl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934105821 ISBN 13: 9781934105825

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 Vidokle

About this title

About the Author

Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous “Radio Alice” in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently teaches Social History of the Media at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934105821
• ISBN 13: 9781934105825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle