#the poor image

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Hito Steyerl - In defense of the poor image < from e-flux journal 10 >

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Hito Steyerl - In defense of the poor image < from e-flux journal 10 >

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… perhaps one has to redefine the value of the image, or, more precisely, to create a new perspective for it. Apart from resolution and exchange value, one might imagine another form of value defined by velocity, immensity, and spread.

Hito Steyerl - In defense of the poor image < from e-flux journal #10 >

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Hito Steyerl - In defense of the poor image < from e-flux journal 10 >

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In a way, the poor image is subject to a similar tension. On the one hand, it operates against the fetish value of high resolution. On the other hand, this is precisely why it also ends up being perfectly integrated into an information capitalism thriving on compressed attention spans, on impression rather than immersion, on intensity rather than contemplation, on previews rather than screenings.

Hito Steyerl / In Defense of the Poor Image in The Wretched of the Screen (2012) / p. 42