{"product_id":"duty-free-art-hito-steyerl-9781786632449","title":"Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of \"neurocurating,\" in which paintings surveil their audience via facial recognition and eye tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDuty Free Art\u003c\/i\u003e, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hito Steyerl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786632446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786632449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Hito Steyerl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048014213375,"sku":"9781786632449","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eeda12b2-112c-4d08-9a6f-5dd6877cb116.jpg?v=1684993411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/duty-free-art-hito-steyerl-9781786632449","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}