Revista ZUM 16

The spam of the earth: withdrawal of representation

Hito Steyerl

Image spam created by Giselle Beiguelman Dense clusters of radio waves leave our planet every second. Our letters and snapshots, intimate and official communications, TV broadcasts and text messages drift away from earth in rings, a tectonic architecture of the desires and fears of our times [1]. In a few hundred thousand years, extraterrestrial forms […]