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The wretched of the screen

by Hito Steyerl, Franco Berardi

This collection of essays investigates the intersection of digital imagery, technology, and global politics. The text analyses the role of screens in contemporary capitalism, labour extraction in the art world, and the evolving representation of political power.

Accession 15132 ISBN 9781934105825 Publisher Sternberg Press
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"...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." --blurb

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