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Hito Steyerl is an artist, filmmaker and writer known for exploring late capitalism through art, politics and philosophy. She has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Reina Sofía, ICA London and the Venice Biennale, and wrote The Wretched of the Screen and Duty Free Art.
Photo: Dominik Butzmann / re:publica, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIf one takes previous technological upheavals as templates, potential benefits from potential productivity increases will not be redistributed voluntarily, as Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue in Power and Progress. There will need to be social movements in order to make it happen. In the short term, there will be further intensification of class divides.
Hito Steyerl, Hito Steyerl on How It Uses Us
Hito Steyerl's analysis of digital image circulation and what she calls "poor images" offers valuable perspectives on how visual information travels and transforms in contemporary networks.
A.I.C.C.A., Mario Klingemann & A.I.C.C.A. on Alien Perspective