Hito Steyerl
The Wretched of the Screen
Book launch: Friday, December 7, 2012 at 7:30pm
talk by Hito Steyerl, with an introduction by Brian Kuan Wood
Pro qm
Almstadtstraße 48-50
10119 Berlin, Germany
www.e-flux.com
www.sternberg-press.com
e-flux is pleased to announce a book launch for a new publication in the e-flux journal series: a collection of essays by Hito Steyerl, at Pro qm. On Friday, December 7th at 7:30pm, please join us for a talk by Hito Steyerl, with an introduction by Brian Kuan Wood.
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.
Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
With Introduction by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick
September 2012, English
10.8 x 17.8 cm, 200 pages, 24 b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-82-5
www.sternberg-press.com
