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

In Hito Steyerls 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 Steyerls 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