In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl


In Defense of the Poor Image
Title : In Defense of the Poor Image
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : ebook
Number of Pages : 9
Publication : Published January 1, 2009

"The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation.

In short: it is about reality."

In Defense of the Poor Image Reviews

  • sofía lira santic

    "Las imágenes pobres muestran lo extraordinario, lo obvio y lo increíble, siempre y cuando seamos todavía capaces de descifrarlo."

    "Las imágenes pobres son pobres porque están muy comprimidas y viajan rápidamente. Pierden materia y ganan velocidad. Pero también expresan una condición de desmaterialización, que comparten no solo con el legado del arte conceptual sino sobre todo con los modos contemporáneos de producción semiótica."

    Ojalá pudiese escribir tan bien.
    Gracias clase de Historia de la Imagen por invitarme a leer cosas tan bellas y tan inteligentes

  • caroline

    Loved this essay when i first read it, and love it even more with the extra 2021 layer of NFTs.
    Steyerl says: "the dematerialized art object turns out to be perfectly adapted to the semioticization of capital, and thus to the conceptual turn of capitalism," which couldn't apply more to the further radicalization of "culture as commodity" we see with NFTs and this growing desire of ownership over the poor image.

  • Michel

    The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

  • Ben

    What would Hito Steyerl say about NFTs lol

  • catherine ♡

    memes

  • Fileona

    Relevant when thinking of 2000-2010, where image format was something to get past, progressing towards futures of high resolution and cloud based storage networks. In true Hito fashion, reads somewhere between an essay and an archeological musing on the images we leave behind in the past.

  • Casey Browne

    Relevant when thinking of 2000-2010, where image format was something to get past, progressing towards futures of high resolution and cloud-based storage networks