Podcasts about Hito Steyerl

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“Una mattina mi son' svegliato…” (Bella Ciao). Na terceira década deste vinte e um, parece que os manifestos de ordem literária são gravados em balas. As palavras com capacidade de ruptura, de suspensão viajam em trajectórias balísticas. Cada tiro carrega uma proposição, um código cheio de carga viral. O atentado ameaça tornar-se o mais pregnante género literário numa época de dissolução das linguagens simbólicas. Este género distingue-se pela concisão absoluta, efeito imediato, impacto sem intermediários. O manifesto literário foi absorvido pelo disparo, num momento em que, mais do que qualquer texto, a imagem determinou que os corpos são os verdadeiros signos, saturando o espaço mediático, num momento em que a aparência consome todo o sentido, em que a estética e a política se confundem. Neste quadro, descontando esses actos mais peremptórios, dos livros, valem os que são escritos com sangue, com a merda, com essas excreções biliosas, essas pedras cultivadas interiormente e que conseguem cortar a luz, devolver-nos a um mundo trevoso. No seu livro, Heróis, Assassínio em Massa e Suicídio, Franco ‘Bifo' Berardi justifica o seu interesse por esses exemplos de brutalidade espectacular por reconhecer naqueles que a praticam a manifestação extrema de uma das tendências mais chamativas da nossa época: “Neles vejo os heróis de uma época niilista, uma era dominada por uma apavorante estupidez – a do capitalismo financeiro.” No entender deste filósofo italiano, nos nossos dias, o espaço do discurso épico foi ocupado pelas semio-corporações, esses aparatos dos quais emanam as ilusões que ocupam todo o horizonte de aspirações contemporâneas. “Aí reside a origem desta forma de tragédia tardo-moderna, nessa fronteira onde as ilusões são tomadas por realidade e as identidades percebidas como formas genuínas de pertença.” Para Bifo, a raça humana, deixando-se guiar por falsos heróis de enganosa substância electromagnética, perdeu a fé na realidade da vida e dos seus prazeres, e passou a acreditar apenas na infinita multiplicação das imagens. Ele serve-se de uma passagem do livro Os Condenados do Ecrã, em que Hito Steyerl assinala um ponto decisivo nesta transição, recordando o momento em que foi lançado o single Heroes, de David Bowie, em 1977: “Em 1977, a análise da situação iluminada pela banda punk The Stranglers proclama uma obviedade: o heroísmo terminou. Trotsky, Lenine e Shakespeare estão mortos. Enquanto os militantes de esquerda acorrem em massa ao funeral dos membros da Fracção do Exército Vermelho Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin e Jan-Carl Raspe, a capa do álbum dos Stranglers mostra uma gigantesca coroa fúnebre de cravos vermelhos e declara: NÃO MAIS HERÓIS. Nunca mais. Mas também em 1977 David Bowie lança o seu single Heroes. Ele canta um novo tipo de herói, justamente a tempo da revolução neoliberal. O herói morreu, longa vida ao herói! Mas o herói de Bowie já não é um sujeito: é um objecto, uma coisa, uma imagem, um esplêndido fetiche — uma mercadoria imbuída de desejo, ressuscitada para além da miséria do seu próprio fim. Basta olhar para um vídeo de 1977 para perceber porquê: Bowie canta-se a si mesmo a partir de três ângulos simultâneos, com técnicas de sobreposição que triplicam a sua imagem; o herói de Bowie não só foi clonado, como sobretudo tornou-se numa imagem que pode ser reproduzida, multiplicada e copiada, um riff que circula sem esforço em anúncios que promovem quase qualquer coisa, um fetiche que embala como produto a glamourosa e impassível imagem de um Bowie para além dos dois géneros. O herói de Bowie já não é um ser humano maior que a vida, a cumprir missões sensacionais e exemplares; nem sequer é um ícone, mas um produto resplandecente dotado de beleza pós-humana: uma imagem e nada mais que uma imagem. A imortalidade deste herói já não provém da sua força para sobreviver a qualquer prova, mas da sua capacidade de ser fotocopiado, reciclado e reencarnado. A destruição alterará a sua forma e aparência, mas a sua substância permanecerá intacta. A imortalidade da coisa é a sua finitude, não a sua eternidade.” Face a este fenómeno seria possível identificar hoje um existencialismo de natureza puramente publicitária. Se ontem este nascia da náusea, e o homem lançado ao mundo era forçado a reconhecer-se livre, responsável, sem desculpa. Hoje, essa náusea foi estetizada, reciclada, convertida em branding. O que resta do ser não é o abismo da liberdade, mas a superfície brilhante do cartaz. Cada sujeito, em vez de se saber condenado à liberdade, descobre-se condenado à visibilidade. A nova metafísica é publicitária. A vida não se projecta — promove-se. O projecto sartriano, essa construção singular que respondia à contingência, converteu-se em storytelling padronizado. Já não me invento no risco de cada gesto, mas no algoritmo que recolhe e redistribui os meus gestos em equivalências de consumo. A angústia? Foi substituída pela ansiedade de não ser suficientemente visível, suficientemente performativo, suficientemente "autêntico" na vitrina universal. O inferno já não são os outros: é o feed. Um espaço onde o ser-para-outro já não é dialéctica mas estatística. Cada like é uma transcendência mínima, um micro-salto ontológico que me arranca por segundos à minha insignificância. A má-fé, outrora mecanismo subtil de fuga, é agora princípio estrutural. Viver é representar uma marca, e negar esse estatuto é apenas confirmar-se como produto de nicho. O homem publicitário não mente a si mesmo: ele é a própria mentira organizada, sistemática, estetizada. Que fazer diante deste deserto saturado de signos? Se em Sartre a liberdade exigia comprometer-se, aqui exige desaparição, opacidade, silêncio. Talvez a única resistência seja um existencialismo clandestino, sem campanhas nem slogans, uma vida que se furta à estetização total. Existir como quem sabota um anúncio: rasgando o cartaz, borrando o ecrã, recusando o brilho do próprio reflexo.

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Produktion und Wahrnehmung von Kunst und Kultur. Daher ist es wichtig, Orte des kulturellen Austauschs zu erhalten und zu fördern, sagt Filmemacherin, Autorin und Künstlerin Hito Steyerl. Koldehoff, Stefan www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kulturfragen

Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia) about her book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory (Duke University Press, 2025). Our discussion brought us to topics like the artists' muse, the modern laborer, and other figures precariously suspended between the object/subject dialectic. In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Dr. Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution—a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor—to think about the confluences of generalized and gendered labor in modern art. Analyzing works ranging from Édouard Manet's Olympia and Georges Seurat's The Models to contemporary work by Hito Steyerl and Hannah Black, she shows how avant-garde artists can detect changing modes of production and capitalist and biopolitical processes of abstraction that assign identities to subjects in the interest of value's impersonal circulation. She demonstrates that art and abstraction resist modes of production and subjugation at the level of process and form rather than through referential representation. By studying gendered and generalized labor, abstraction, automation, and the worker, Mansoor shifts focus away from ideology, superstructure, and culture toward the ways art indexes crisis and transformation in the political economic base. Ultimately, she traces the outlines of a counterpraxis to capital while demonstrating how artworks give us a way to see through the abstractions of everyday life. This episode was hosted by Asia Adomanis, a PhD student in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia) about her book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory (Duke University Press, 2025). Our discussion brought us to topics like the artists' muse, the modern laborer, and other figures precariously suspended between the object/subject dialectic. In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Dr. Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution—a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor—to think about the confluences of generalized and gendered labor in modern art. Analyzing works ranging from Édouard Manet's Olympia and Georges Seurat's The Models to contemporary work by Hito Steyerl and Hannah Black, she shows how avant-garde artists can detect changing modes of production and capitalist and biopolitical processes of abstraction that assign identities to subjects in the interest of value's impersonal circulation. She demonstrates that art and abstraction resist modes of production and subjugation at the level of process and form rather than through referential representation. By studying gendered and generalized labor, abstraction, automation, and the worker, Mansoor shifts focus away from ideology, superstructure, and culture toward the ways art indexes crisis and transformation in the political economic base. Ultimately, she traces the outlines of a counterpraxis to capital while demonstrating how artworks give us a way to see through the abstractions of everyday life. This episode was hosted by Asia Adomanis, a PhD student in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia) about her book Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory (Duke University Press, 2025). Our discussion brought us to topics like the artists' muse, the modern laborer, and other figures precariously suspended between the object/subject dialectic. In Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction, Dr. Mansoor provides a counternarrative of modernism and abstraction and a reexamination of Marxist aesthetics. Mansoor draws on Marx's concept of prostitution—a conceptual device through which Marx allegorized modern labor—to think about the confluences of generalized and gendered labor in modern art. Analyzing works ranging from Édouard Manet's Olympia and Georges Seurat's The Models to contemporary work by Hito Steyerl and Hannah Black, she shows how avant-garde artists can detect changing modes of production and capitalist and biopolitical processes of abstraction that assign identities to subjects in the interest of value's impersonal circulation. She demonstrates that art and abstraction resist modes of production and subjugation at the level of process and form rather than through referential representation. By studying gendered and generalized labor, abstraction, automation, and the worker, Mansoor shifts focus away from ideology, superstructure, and culture toward the ways art indexes crisis and transformation in the political economic base. Ultimately, she traces the outlines of a counterpraxis to capital while demonstrating how artworks give us a way to see through the abstractions of everyday life. This episode was hosted by Asia Adomanis, a PhD student in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

“Le monde selon l'IA”au Jeu de Paume, Parisdu 11 avril au 21 septembre 2025Entretien avec Antonio Somaini, professeur de théorie du cinéma, des médias et de la culture visuelle à l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle et commissaire général de l'exposition,par Anne-Frédérique Fer, à Paris, le 28 avril 2025, durée 16'50,© FranceFineArt.https://francefineart.com/2025/05/10/3616_le-monde-selon-l-ia_jeu-de-paume/Communiqué de presse Commissaire général : Antonio SomainiCommissaires associés : Ada Ackerman, Alexandre Gefen, Pia ViewingLe Jeu de Paume présente, du 11 avril au 21 septembre 2025, une exposition explorant les liens entre intelligence artificielle et l'art contemporain, qui sera la première au monde de cette ampleur.Développées à vitesse accélérée dans tous les champs de la société, les intelligences artificielles suscitent aujourd'hui étonnement, frayeur, enthousiasme ou scepticisme.Le monde selon l'IA présente une sélection d'oeuvres d'artistes qui, au cours de ces dix dernières années, se sont emparés de ces questions en art, photographie, cinéma, sculpture, littérature… Elle d.voile des oeuvres – en grande parties inédites – d'artistes de la scène française et internationale tels Julian Charrière, Grégory Chatonsky, Agnieszka Kurant, Christian Marclay, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Sasha Stiles,…De l' “IA analytique”, sur laquelle se fondent les systèmes de vision artificielle et de reconnaissance faciale, . l' “IA générative”, capable de produire de nouvelles images, sons et textes, l'exposition traite de la manière dont ces technologies bouleversent les processus créatifs, redéfinissent les frontières de l'art, sans oublier d'en interroger les enjeux sociaux, politiques et environnementaux. Des capsules temporelles jalonnent par ailleurs le parcours, sous forme de vitrines suggérant des liens historiques et généalogiques entre ces phénomènes contemporains et différents objets issus du passé. Au-delà de toute fascination technophile ou de rejet technophobe, le Jeu de Paume propose, à travers cette exposition, une réflexion sur la manière dont l'IA transforme notre rapport visuel et sensible au monde, comme nos sociétés.L'intelligence artificielle, notion introduite en 1955, désigne de nos jours l'apprentissage automatique qui transforme tous les domaines de la société, avec des applications remplaçant l'action humaine sur la détection, la prise de décision ou la création de contenus textuels et visuels. Ces avancées soul.vent des enjeux éthiques, économiques, politiques et sociaux, entre autres en matière de vie privée et de discrimination, tout en bouleversant notre rapport aux images et aux textes. Dans le domaine artistique, l'IA redéfinit les processus de création, de production et de réception, mettant en crise les notions de créativité, d'originalité et de droits d'auteur. Les artistes de l'exposition mobilisent ces technologies aussi bien pour interroger leurs conséquences sur l'art et la société que pour expérimenter de nouvelles formes possibles d'expression.[...] Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Was bedeutet Normalität, wenn rechtsradikales Denken salonfähig wird? Und eine rechte Partei mit dem Slogan „Deutschland, aber normal“ wirbt? Normalität – zeigt Hito Steyerl bereits in ihrer gleichnamigen Serie von Video-Arbeiten aus den 1990er Jahren – wird dann zum Bedrohungsszenario für alle, die nicht unter die Norm fallen. Bekannt ist sie heute vor allem für ihre Video-Essays, zum Beispiel für die Arbeit „Is the Museum a Battlefield?“ über Kunst-Sponsoring von Rüstungskonzernen. Vom Magazin „Art Review“ wurde Hito Steyerl als einflussreichste Persönlichkeit in der Kunstwelt bezeichnet.

Anfang 2023 lehnte die Künstlerin Hito Steyerl den Hugo-Ball-Preis der Stadt Pirmasens ab, da in einigen Schriften Hugo Balls antisemitische Inhalte zu erkennen seien. Die Stadt und das Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, wo Hugo Ball 1916 den Grundstein für den Dadaismus legte, veranstalteten daraufhin zahlreiche Vorträge und Workshops. Jetzt ging der Prozess mit einer abschließenden Podiumsdiskussion zu Ende.

It's Donna Tartt appreciation week! Michelle joins us for our deep dive into The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt's brilliant, award-winning novel about art, drugs, loss, and not always getting what you want. Also this week Joseph read Death Valley by Melissa Broder and Duty Free Art by Hito Steyerl, Michelle read A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister and Fire and Blood by George R R Martin, and Saph read Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin and Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories. This week's listener recommendation request comes from Edward who is looking for a great (auto)biography. Joseph recommends Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon. Saph recommends Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and Take Away by Angela Hui. Michelle recommends Clothes Clothes Clothes, Music Music Music, Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine, Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse by Laura Hillenbrand, and Educated by Tara Westover. Also mentioned in this episode:The Secret History and The Little Friend by Donna TarttMilk Fed by Melissa BroderGreat Expectations by Charles DickensWhores of Yore Twitter accounte-fluxSee the Novel Thoughts bookshop page for all books mentioned in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luciana Parisi has produced some of the 21st century's most daring and bold work in the theories of cybernetics, information, and computation. Her work has had a major impact on both Marek and Roberto's artistic practices, specifically her early work in the inorganic components of human reproduction. Just a brief content note — we mention some complex topics including consent and suicide at the top of the pod, specifically in the context of David Marriott's concept of “Revolutionary Suicide”. These concepts are not extensively discussed throughout, but are nonetheless heavy topics. We strongly recommend three texts in parallel with this conversation:Probably Marek's favorite piece of theory: Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of DesireA book more specifically scoped to the subject of this conversation, which attacks the biophysicalist metaphors at the ground of how AI research markets itself: Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and SpaceThe essay: The Alien Subject of AI.Some references from the conversation that are likely interesting to any listener:If you haven't read Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis (renamed Lilith's Brood), we strongly recommend these amazing pieces of science fiction.If you're unfamiliar with the CCRU, play around on the CCRU website and buy this unhinged compendium from our friends at Urbanomic (they have a super sexy new edition just out now). If you haven't read Sadie Plant's Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture, it's seriously an essential read if you're interested in computation.We briefly make fun of the feature film “The Creator”, which it looks like you can stream on major platforms. We mention this in the context of Delueze and Guattari's “War Machine” — we recommend their “Nomadology: The War Machine” (if you follow Marek on Instagram, you'll note that he's obsessed with the exteriority of war machines from the state).When we start to talk about information theory, Luciana mentions Claude Shannon (one of the fathers of modern information theory), Cecile Malaspina (“An Epistemology of Noise”), and Karen Barad (“What is the Measure of Nothingness?”).Francois Laruelle is a major influence to Luciana here, in her chapter in Choreomata, and elsewhere. His corpus of work is famously intractable, but her chapter in Choreomata is a good way in.Luciana mentions Holly Herndon's work (we strongly recommend Holly+ and https://haveibeentrained.com/, alongside her and Mat Dryhurst's podcast, which was a huge inspiration to us when starting Disintegrator).Everyone should read Hito Steyerl's work “Mean Images” on NLR as they should Sylvia Wynter's “Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition”.

Nach dem Rücktritt der Findungskommission fordert die Künstlerin Hito Steyerl eine vollständige Neuorientierung der Documenta. Sie müsse alte Paradigmen über Bord werfen und endlich im „Zeitalter der Multikrisen“ ankommen.Steyerl, Hitowww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, InterviewDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

EPISODE 1827: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the filmmaker, artist and writer Hito Steyerl about what she calls the "pyramid schemes", "on-boarding" tools and the "mean" creativity of our AI ageHito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

Ein offener Brief durchbricht die dröhnende Stille im Literaturbetrieb. Jüdinnen und Juden haben das Sicherheitsgefühl in Deutschland verloren. Und eine junge Liberale will sich wohl unbeliebt machen. Das ist die Lage am Samstagmorgen. Hier die Artikel zum Nachlesen: Antisemitismus in Berlin: »Zum ersten Mal verstehe ich, was es bedeutet, Jüdin zu sein« Starkünstlerin Hito Steyerl über Antisemitismus in der Kulturszene: »Einige halten die Hamas für eine Befreiungsbewegung« FDP-Bildungspolitikerin Ria Schröder im Interview: »Warum gehen manche Leute nicht neben dem Studium arbeiten?«   +++ Alle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/spiegellage +++ Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Webseite verantwortlich.Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

In der Ausstellung "Dear Earth - Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis" in der Londoner Hayward Gallery zeigen 15 Künstler*innen und Kollektive aus unterschiedlichen Ländern ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Umwelt und der Klimakrise. Elke Buhr, Chefredakteurion vom Monopol-Magazin hat sich die Ausstellung angeschaut und berichtet von ihren Eindrücken, besonders von "Green Screen", dem neuen Werk von Hito Steyerl. Moderation: Anja Bolle detektor.fm/was-wichtig-wird Podcast: detektor.fm/feeds/was-wichtig-wird Apple Podcasts: itun.es/de/9cztbb.c Google Podcasts: goo.gl/cmJioL Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0UnRK019ItaDoWBQdCaLOt

Mitschnitt der öffentlichen Podiumsdiskussion anlässlich der Ausstellung HITO STEYERL. THE CITY OF BROKEN WINDOWS (15.06.-15.10.2023) im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Panel zum digitalen Kunstbegriff, künstlicher Intelligenz, aktueller kuratorischer Praxis und der politischen Dimension des Digitalen mit Künstlerin Hito Steyerl, Medienkünstler Francis Hunger und Kunstwissenschaftler Wolfgang Ullrich, moderiert von Museumsdirektor Stefan Weppelmann.

Podiumsdiskussion zum digitalen Kunstbegriff, künstlicher Intelligenz, aktueller kuratorischer Praxis und der politischen Dimension des Digitalen mit Künstlerin Hito Steyerl, Medienkünstler Francis Hunger und Kunstwissenschaftler Wolfgang Ullrich, moderiert von Museumsdirektor Stefan Weppelmann.

Given the manifold political, climate, and technological crises unfolding just two months into 2023, one wonders if that ominous future our species so fears is much closer than we anticipated. It is a tense and dramatic time, but it does further underscore the importance of the cultural figure Hito Steyerl. The German filmmaker's bold artworks investigate emerging technologies and media, and she often sites these inquiries within society and politics, globalization, and capitalism. Yet despite the complexity of the subject matter and her research-intensive process, Steyerl's works are readily enthralling, often manifesting as highly ambitious, immersive architectural environments. It is no small wonder that her work has reached a global stage. Last year, her largest-ever retrospective, called “I Will Survive,” wrapped its European tour at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And just last month, her exhibition called “This is the Future” opened at the Portland Art Museum, where it is on view until mid-June. On this week's episode, European editor Kate Brown spoke to Steyerl to tackle some of the questions about what artificial intelligence, the metaverse, crypto, and an increasingly imperiled natural world might mean for us.

Given the manifold political, climate, and technological crises unfolding just two months into 2023, one wonders if that ominous future our species so fears is much closer than we anticipated. It is a tense and dramatic time, but it does further underscore the importance of the cultural figure Hito Steyerl. The German filmmaker's bold artworks investigate emerging technologies and media, and she often sites these inquiries within society and politics, globalization, and capitalism. Yet despite the complexity of the subject matter and her research-intensive process, Steyerl's works are readily enthralling, often manifesting as highly ambitious, immersive architectural environments. It is no small wonder that her work has reached a global stage. Last year, her largest-ever retrospective, called “I Will Survive,” wrapped its European tour at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And just last month, her exhibition called “This is the Future” opened at the Portland Art Museum, where it is on view until mid-June. On this week's episode, European editor Kate Brown spoke to Steyerl to tackle some of the questions about what artificial intelligence, the metaverse, crypto, and an increasingly imperiled natural world might mean for us.

Bruno BerteroDirettore Generale Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero"Prospettive / Perspectives"L'Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero insieme a Villa Arson, istituzione amministrativa pubblica del Ministero della Cultura francese dedicata alla creazione contemporanea, e alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, istituzione con sede a Torino e a Guarene (CN) che da oltre venticinque anni opera a favore dell'arte e della cultura contemporanea, lo scorso ottobre ha presentato il progetto “Prospettive / Perspectives” che si realizzerà con il sostegno del Programma Europeo Interreg Alcotra Italia/Francia 2014-2020. “Prospettive / Perspectives” intende stimolare consapevolezza e responsabilità rispetto al tema del climate change attraverso l'arte. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo la Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - portando avanti il suo ruolo di indagine e sostegno tra le tendenze artistiche e i linguaggi culturali del presente - ha individuato un curatore internazionale, Tom Eccles, che in accordo con gli altri partner ha selezionato due luoghi e due artisti che interverranno con opere site-specific nel territorio delle Langhe nella primavera prossima.Neviglie, in un punto panoramico dalla vista mozzafiato, ospiterà l'opera dello scultore francese Jean-Marie Appriou mentre a Roddino interverranno gli artisti Liam Gillick e Hito Steyerl. In preparazione al momento inaugurale Prospettive continua a perseguire il principale obiettivo del progetto ovvero costruire e trasferire attenzione e conoscenza sui temi del cambiamento climatico attraverso incontri fra cittadini, studenti, esperti e artisti.Il primo appuntamento del 2023 sarà giovedì 9 febbraio a Alba negli spazi di Sala Beppe Fenoglio (Cortile della Maddalena, Via Vittorio Emanuele 19) dove alle ore 18.30 il climatologo Luca Mercalli e il musicista Luca Morinoterranno un incontro approfondendo il tema del cambiamento climatico e del mutamento delle nostre colline sottolineando quanto sia fondamentale cambiare prospettiva e costruire un futuro capace di limitare gli effetti del cambiamento climatico di origine antropica. La serata, a tema conviviale con un aperitivo finale, sarà aperta al pubblico con ingresso gratuito fino ad esaurimento posti.Gli appuntamenti successivi saranno giovedì 2 marzo alle ore 18.30 presso la Fondazione Cesare Pavese (Piazza Ciriotti 1, Santo Stefano Belbo, CN) nuovamente con Luca Mercalli e Luca Morino mentre lunedì 27 marzo alle 21 a Roddino nel salone parrocchiale di Via Marconi 3 e martedì 28 marzo sempre alle 21 presso la sala polivalente del Comune di Neviglie in Via Umberto I 19 il dialogo sarà tra Luca Morino e il curatore della Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Bernardo Follini.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Luca Morinomusicista"Prospettive / Perspectives"L'Ente Turismo Langhe Monferrato Roero insieme a Villa Arson, istituzione amministrativa pubblica del Ministero della Cultura francese dedicata alla creazione contemporanea, e alla Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, istituzione con sede a Torino e a Guarene (CN) che da oltre venticinque anni opera a favore dell'arte e della cultura contemporanea, lo scorso ottobre ha presentato il progetto “Prospettive / Perspectives” che si realizzerà con il sostegno del Programma Europeo Interreg Alcotra Italia/Francia 2014-2020.“Prospettive / Perspectives” intende stimolare consapevolezza e responsabilità rispetto al tema del climate change attraverso l'arte. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo la Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - portando avanti il suo ruolo di indagine e sostegno tra le tendenze artistiche e i linguaggi culturali del presente - ha individuato un curatore internazionale, Tom Eccles, che in accordo con gli altri partner ha selezionato due luoghi e due artisti che interverranno con opere site-specific nel territorio delle Langhe nella primavera prossima.Neviglie, in un punto panoramico dalla vista mozzafiato, ospiterà l'opera dello scultore francese Jean-Marie Appriou mentre a Roddino interverranno gli artisti Liam Gillick e Hito Steyerl.In preparazione al momento inaugurale Prospettive continua a perseguire il principale obiettivo del progetto ovvero costruire e trasferire attenzione e conoscenza sui temi del cambiamento climatico attraverso incontri fra cittadini, studenti, esperti e artisti.Il primo appuntamento del 2023 sarà giovedì 9 febbraio a Alba negli spazi di Sala Beppe Fenoglio (Cortile della Maddalena, Via Vittorio Emanuele 19) dove alle ore 18.30 il climatologo Luca Mercalli e il musicista Luca Morinoterranno un incontro approfondendo il tema del cambiamento climatico e del mutamento delle nostre colline sottolineando quanto sia fondamentale cambiare prospettiva e costruire un futuro capace di limitare gli effetti del cambiamento climatico di origine antropica. La serata, a tema conviviale con un aperitivo finale, sarà aperta al pubblico con ingresso gratuito fino ad esaurimento posti.Gli appuntamenti successivi saranno giovedì 2 marzo alle ore 18.30 presso la Fondazione Cesare Pavese (Piazza Ciriotti 1, Santo Stefano Belbo, CN) nuovamente con Luca Mercalli e Luca Morino mentre lunedì 27 marzo alle 21 a Roddino nel salone parrocchiale di Via Marconi 3 e martedì 28 marzo sempre alle 21 presso la sala polivalente del Comune di Neviglie in Via Umberto I 19 il dialogo sarà tra Luca Morino e il curatore della Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Bernardo Follini.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Hito Steyerl's Defense of the Poor ImageHito Steyerl was born in 1966 and quickly became prominent in Germany's filmmaking circles. She's interested in how images and motifs are spread worldwide due to globalization, militarization, and surveillance migration. Steyerl's work defies convention by layering metaphors on top of metaphors and painting satire over serious subjects. One clear thing throughout Steyerl's work is that she wants the audience to think about the topic as much as she did.In this episode, I share Steyerl's concept of a poor image. According to Steyerl, a poor image symbolizes this democratization and is a way to resist image commodification. A bad image is an image that has been degraded through technological reproduction. The degradation is a loss of quality and integrity in the image.Listen to this episode and learn Steyerl's definitions of a poor image, how it can be used to exploit vulnerable communities, market cheap products, the significance of poor image in media, and the value of a poor image.Key Talking Points of the Episode:[02:14] How to transform an image[04:03] High versus low resolution images[08:07] Valid arguments against the poor image [10:12] How poor image can be used to exploit vulnerable communities[12:06] The significance of a poor image[14:01] The value of a poor imageMagical Quotes from the Episode:"A poor image is any image that has been distributed or viewed through digital technology, posted on the Internet or shared on social media.""A high-resolution image is more immersive, visually appealing and of higher quality than a low-resolution image.""A bad image is only created as a result of being viewed, distributed, modified, and circulated in a digital landscape." Visual Intonation Website: https://www.visualintonations.com/Visual Intonation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visualintonation/Vante Gregory's Website: vantegregory.comVante Gregory's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/directedbyvante/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): patreon.com/visualintonations Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@visualintonation Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@directedbyvante

Spivak gilt als Mitbegründerin der postkolonialen Theorie. Mit ihrem Text will Spivak in die symbolische Ordnung der globalen kapitalistischen Herrschaft intervenieren. Der klassische territoriale und der neuere postkoloniale Imperialismus schaffen eine internationale Arbeitsteilung. Es entstehen Zonen der Subalternität, in denen Menschen von jeder Mobilitätslinie abgeschnitten sind: analphabetisch, obdachlos, überausgebeutet. Bekommen solche Menschen eine Stimme? Sind sie präsent oder werden sie repräsentiert in den globalen Herrschaftsverhältnissen? Spivak kritisiert Foucault und Deleuze dafür, dass sie nur an Frankreich, nur an Gruppen wie Gefängnisinsassen, Schüler*innen oder Soldaten denken, und dass sie suggerieren, die Macht sei nicht so mächtig, den Subalternen die Stimme zu nehmen. Subalterne können sprechen, so die Überzeugung von Spivak, aber ihre Stimme wird zum Verstummen gebracht oder sie werden nicht gehört. Sie demonstriert diesen Zusammenhang, indem sie den Suizid einer indischen Freiheitskämpferin der 1920er Jahre wie einen Text dechiffriert. Vor dem Hintergrund Bildungsarbeit mit Illiteraten und ihren politischen Erfahrungen als Wahlbeobachterin in afrikanischen Ländern argumentiert Spivak, dass Repräsentation notwendig ist. Dies ist eine Aufgabe, die diasporische Intellektuelle wie sie selbst eine ist, wahrnehmen sollten. Sie arbeiten in den Zentren des Kapitalismus und sollen sich dafür einsetzen, die Verhältnisse in den Gesellschaften, aus denen sie kommen, zu verändern. Zu Gast ist Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Professorin für Soziologie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main. Sie forscht in einer dekolonialen und antirassistischen Perspektive und gab 2003 gemeinsam mit Hito Steyerl das Buch „Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Migration und postkoloniale Kritik“ heraus.

To hear our take on Andrew Callaghan and This Places Rules please support us on Patreon. 2022 was hard on your Art and Labor crew- so we wanted to start the new year with the most “le fantastique” thing we could think of, a world of endless possibilities, a place where magic could exist, a … Continue reading "182 – I See You"

We are closing out 2022 with highlights from eight incredible artists that graced the show this year. Tune in to hear the voices of Gary Hill, American Artist, WangShui, Meriem Bennani, Alan Michelson, Tourmaline, Arthur Jafa, and Hito Steyerl discussing how they think about the preservation and documentation of their work, as well as intimate inside glimpses into their practice and studios. Sending a huge heartfelt thanks to everyone all of the listeners that made 2022 such a memorable year for the show – wishing you all the best and see you in the new year! xoGet access to exlusive content - join us on Patreon!> https://patreon.com/artobsolescenceJoin the conversation:https://www.instagram.com/artobsolescence/Support artistsArt and Obsolescence is a non-profit podcast, sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and we are committed to equitably supporting artists that come on the show. Help support our work by making a tax deductible gift through NYFA here: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/donate

For our 60th episode, we are visiting with artist, writer, filmmaker, and educator, Hito Steyerl. In addition to being able to find Hito's work in museums, biennales, collections, and bookshelves all over the world, a good deal of her single-channel moving image work can be watched freely online, which of course is a good thing, but Hito's work has also explored the darker side of what the global dispersion of images can entail – starting with her deeply personal pre-internet short film Lovely Andrea. Hito's work is often deeply socially and politically engaged – taking on issues of war, labor, surveillance, climate change, and more – and this social engagement and critique extends of course to her writing. Hito is not shy about turning her lens onto corruption that exists within the art world itself, as she did in her 2017 book, Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War – a book whose initial seed of inspiration was realizing that an artwork of her own had been purchased merely as an investment and shipped directly to a tax-haven Freeport art storage facility. Hito's installations are often ambitious in scale and immersion, and are incredibly spatially away of your presence – it is quite common to find a place for yourself as a viewer to sit, rest, and enjoy the work – in a way that is very integrated with the installation itself. In our chat we cover so much ground from Hito's origins in film-making, to going inside how she conceives of and creates her immersive installations, as well as some pretty real feelings about long-term preservation of contemporary art in the age of anthropogenic climate change and global energy crisis. This episode was made possible thanks to generous support from lovely folks at the Kramlich Art Foundation. Tune in to hear Hito's story! Links from the conversation with Hito> How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013: https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651> Lovely Andrea, 2007: https://vimeo.com/533265768> Duty Free Art, Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2992-duty-free-art> Radical Friends: https://www.furtherfield.org/radical-friends-book/ Get access to exlusive content - join us on Patreon!> https://patreon.com/artobsolescenceJoin the conversation:https://www.instagram.com/artobsolescence/Support artistsArt and Obsolescence is a non-profit podcast, sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and we are committed to equitably supporting artists that come on the show. Help support our work by making a tax deductible gift through NYFA here: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/donate

Welcome to the Film Comment Podcast! I'm Devika Girish, the Co-Deputy Editor of Film Comment. Recently, I was at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where I participated in a fascinating experimental event called The Future of Attention, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana. It was a continuous 24-hour live talk, moderated by 3 hosts—including yours truly—and involving a new guest each hour. The event began at noon on August 10, and went on all the way to noon on August 11, with attendees invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience when they wished. The idea was not just to discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture but also to actively experience and challenge the various ways in which we pay attention over a sustained period of time. We hope you've been following along the last two weeks as we've shared excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, featuring conversations with filmmaker Helena Wittman, curator Giovanni Carmine, this year's Golden Leopard–winner Julia Murat, and others. Next up is a very exciting guest: artist, filmmaker, and critic, Hito Steyerl, who talks about teaching on Minecraft during the pandemic, maintaining techno-optimisim in very pessimistic times, and the distinction between attention and voyeurism.

At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's episode features the Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat, whose film, Rule 34, won this year's Golden Leopard. Check back here for our next episode from “The Future of Attention” at the Locarno Film Festival, featuring filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl.

At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time. Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's conversation explores the spaces and infrastructures of attention with Levin and Carmine, the director of Kunsthalle St. Gallen and the curator of Art Basel's Unlimited Section.

At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time.  Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittmann and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others. Today's episode features Aljafari, who discusses his new short, Paradiso XXXI, 108, and the ways in which his filmmaking draws attention to what he calls the “camera of the dispossessed.”

At this year's Locarno Film Festival, Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish participated in a fascinating experimental event called “The Future of Attention”, curated by Rafael Dernbach, a researcher at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana. A continuous 24-hour live talk moderated by three hosts—including Devika—and involving a new guest each hour, the event began at noon on August 10 and went on all the way to noon on August 11. Attendees were invited to sit, lounge, or even sleep in the audience as and when they wished. The idea was to not just discuss the workings of attention in contemporary film and media culture, but also to actively experience and challenge the various forms our attention may take over a sustained period of time.  Over the next two weeks, we'll be sharing excerpts from Devika's hosting shift at the event, which featured some exciting guests: filmmakers Helena Wittman and Kamal Aljafari; curator Giovanni Carmine; this year's Golden Leopard–winner, Julia Murat; artist Hito Steyerl; and scholars Kevin B. Lee and Noa Levin, among others.  First up is Wittman, who talks about her new film, Human Flowers of Flesh, and the ways in which her practice is rooted in embodied and communal experiences of time and space.  Check back here for our next episode from “The Future of Attention” at the Locarno Film Festival, featuring Kamal Aljafari.

Panchi Perez Lence, nuestra genial columnista literata de Leyendo Pancha, nos invitó a leer 'Los condenados de la pantalla' de Hito Steyerl para reflexionar un poco sobre cine.

Fatima Al Qadiri, Hito Steyerl & Juliana Huxtable - Nothing Forever; Eartheater - Inhale Baby; Yaka - all i think about it you; DRANG - When They Cry; Mapalma - Moonlight Sex Talk (Megan Thee Stallion x Moonlight Densetsu); Vallmo - Swept; Ange Halliwell - Le Sorcière et la Vagabond; Bendik Giske - Adjust (Total... Read more »

We discussed: artistic discipline in the 21st century, curating photography, contemporary photography, interdisciplinary art, subjectivity, the evolution on photography, beauty in art, the importance of text with your artwork, artist statements, the responsibilities of artists   https://archipelagoprojects.com     People + Places mentioned: Trevor Paglen - https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/trevor-paglen/ Hito Steyerl - https://www.moma.org/artists/43752 Gerhard Richter - https://www.gerhard-richter.com     Audio engineering by Mickey at CushAudio Services Music by Peat Biby     Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway – https://eeagrants.org               And we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no  

We discussed: artistic discipline in the 21st century, curating photography, contemporary photography, interdisciplinary art, subjectivity, the evolution on photography, beauty in art, the importance of text with your artwork, artist statements, the responsibilities of artists   https://archipelagoprojects.com     People + Places mentioned: Trevor Paglen - https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/trevor-paglen/ Hito Steyerl - https://www.moma.org/artists/43752 Gerhard Richter - https://www.gerhard-richter.com     Audio engineering by Mickey at CushAudio Services Music by Peat Biby     Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway – https://eeagrants.org               And we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no  

We speak to Dr Dylan Mulvin, Assistant Professor in LSE Department of Media and Communications, about his book Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In, which examines the ways in which proxies shape our lives, the histories of their production and how we delegate power to represent our world. You can download a free copy of Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In at https://dylanmulvin.com/ In the intro David and I talk about Strange Days (1995) The interview with Dylan starts at 26:58 Visuals referenced: 29:01 -- NTSC color television test slides (Fink and NTSC 1955) 34:09 -- Vancouver as a non place (X-Files) 35:14 -- Indian-head test pattern 36:29 -- UK Test Signal 38:58 -- Cleaning the Kilogram 45:43 -- The Lena image 51:53 -- Yodaville 53:28 -- Middletown 1:08:44 Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 Theme music by Joseph E. Martinez of Junius Follow us on social at: Twitter: @WakeIslandPod Instagram: @wakeislandpod David's Twitter: @raviddice Dylan's Twitter: @dwmulvin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wake-island/support

WATCH IT HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYO_uyLqPu4&t=3137s Are AMVs proletarian or free fandom labor for multinational media companies? Where do Anime Music Videos sit in Hito Steyerl’s “an alternative economy of images” and can someone be the Dziga Vertov of AMVs? Are AMVs subjected to a particular nation state? This is the second session of Constructing the Real’s … Continue reading "Constructing the Real’s Art Worlds – Anime Music Videos: an Artform and Culture"

En este capítulo analizamos el papel de la imagen y la fotografía en el conflicto que, nuevamente, agita la geopolítica mundial: el regreso de los Talibanes al poder en Afganistán. Relacionamos la Toma de Kabul y la imagen que representa el momento de la toma del palacio presidencial que se viralizó por las redes, con la idea de la imagen pobre planteada por Hito Steyerl

What is the lasting legacy of anti-war depictions? Is there revolutionary potential? OK does a presentation for the Constructing the Real class on Revolutionary Art. Picasso’s Guernica connects the brutal massacre from the Spanish Civil War to My Lai in Vietnam and torture in Iraq. Taking the commission from the Spanish republicans also changed the … Continue reading "BONUS – Picasso’s Guernica: Revolutionary Art Class Session"

We revisit Hito Steyerl’s “In Defense of Poor Image” to make a point about naiveté of the American left during the Obama administration. The web was a frontier, meaning conditions have always been ripe for dissemination of far right disinformation as well as highly polished neoliberalism. It’s a positive development that left popular discourse is … Continue reading "Episode 103 – Indefensible Poor Image and Prestige TV"

Spanish politics are complicated. Dan speaks to Carlos Delclós, Kate Shea Baird and Bécquer Seguín to help clarify the Catalan independence movement, the radical municipalist governments that now govern major Spanish cities including Barcelona, and the promise and problems of the left-wing party Podemos. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art. And Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism by Nisha Kapoor versobooks.com/books/2551-deport-deprive-extradite Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and access our new weekly newsletter.

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Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the second of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In part 1, we talked about a lot of things, including how the rise of coal made both industrial capitalism and newly powerful worker resistance possible; and how the shift to oil then facilitated the persistence of imperialism in a decolonizing world while thwarting worker organizing. In this installment, we discuss imperialist assaults on worker struggles in Iraq and Iran, the cooptation of those struggles by nationalist elites, and how those imperialist attacks facilitated the rise of the Baathist security state. We'll also look at how the true history of the 70s oil shock undermines the conventional account, how the protection of minorities was used to legitimate imperialism, how petro-dollars fueled the global arms trade, in what sense the Iraq War has been a war for oil, and the US strategy to seek advantage through the continuation of conflict and instability across the Middle East. Finally, we'll address petro-imperialism's bedrock alliance with right-wing Islamists against democratic movements of the left in Saudi Arabia and beyond, and why we must fight to ensure that the coming energy transition is a just one. That review of Yascha Mounk's book that Dan wrote with Thea Riofrancos https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/zombie-liberalism/ Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art and and Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall versobooks.com/books/2530-police And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig, where you can also check out the first edition of our new weekly newsletter.

It's our 100th episode and the launch of our spring fundraising drive! Aziz Rana returns to The Dig 15 years after the invasion of Iraq to reflect on the paucity of substantive anti-imperialist politics across much of the American left. Socialism isn't just an internationalist politics on principle: domestic and foreign struggles are inherently linked, just as the forces we struggle against are globally intertwined—and the latter benefit from perpetuating an ideology that artificially divides the two. But for decades, a bipartisan consensus has governed foreign policy, to disastrous ends. Why, Rana asks, is there no foreign policy equivalent to the new left-wing domestic policy litmus test on single-payer healthcare? Check out Aziz's n+1 article here: nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-lefts-missing-foreign-policy. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art and Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo versobooks.com/blogs/3635-where-freedom-starts-sex-power-violence-metoo And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

Many Americans take the existence of so-called "illegal immigrants" for granted, whatever their opinion of the matter. But illegality isn't a property of immigrants; rather, it's a creation of positive law. And we can only understand how immigrants are declared "illegal" by the government by examining this country's too-often ignored history of racist and exclusionary immigration politics. Dan's guest today is Mae Ngai, an historian at Columbia and the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing and Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art. And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority countries and those nations he deems to be "shitholes" or, according to another account, "shithouses." But what's seldom reported is that one of the key mechanisms that the Administration has used to target immigrants was rolled out under Barack Obama. It's called Secure Communities, and it's the culmination of decades of policymaking and politicking that have intertwined the United States systems of mass incarceration and immigrant enforcement—facilitating the growth of both. To fight both mass deportation and mass incarceration, localities and states must move beyond what's currently defined as sanctuary, as a new report by Kade Crockford from the Century Foundation and ACLU of Massachusetts argues. tcf.org/content/report/beyond-sanctuary Also: Check out Dan's essay on Trump's proposal to execute drug dealers slate.com/technology/2018/03/trumps-call-to-execute-drug-dealers-is-a-natural-progression-of-american-policy.html And thanks to Verso Books. Check out the FREE e-book Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo versobooks.com/blogs/3635-where-freedom-starts-sex-power-violence-metoo and also Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art

View Transcript Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry talk about their new book To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. King is often remembered for his soaring oratory. But the commonplace emphasis on his rhetoric in place of his ideas too often allows enemies of King's agenda to domesticate him or, worse, to weaponize his taken-out-of-context words to bolster the very forces of racism and oppression that King had struggled to defeat. Dan asks Shelby and Terry about King's theory of nonviolence (more complicated than you might think), his debate with the Black Power movement, and his thinking on gender, hope, political economy, Beloved Community and more. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art and Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall versobooks.com/books/2530-police And support this podcast with $ at patreon.com/TheDig  

Chattel slavery made black women's reproduction the source of private property—and in doing so invented race and American racism. Ever since, the denigration and regulation of black women's childbearing has been central to the construction of white supremacy and the exploitative economic order that it protects, as scholar Dorothy Roberts explained in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, a pivotal book first published in 1997. In this episode, @DorothyERoberts talks about the book and what lessons it holds today as Trump and Republicans seek to destroy yet more of the social safety net and use racism as a smokescreen to distract white Americans from their class war against working people. Thanks to Verso Books for their support. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl versobooks.com/books/2553-duty-free-art And please support The Dig with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

At the close of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara discusses his new article on the Bolsheviks and what we can learn from and blame on them—and also what might be forgiven and moved beyond. Thanks to our sponsors at Verso Books. Check out Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl and Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal at versobooks.com.