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The Wretched of the Screen

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Wretched of the Screen
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hito Steyerl
By (author) Franco "bifo" Berardi
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 108
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art History
ISBN/Barcode 9781934105825
ClassificationsDewey:700.103
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 5 April 2013
Publication Country United States

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

Author Biography

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.