Archive of Duty Free Art

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Artist and scholar Paula Gaetano Adi asks: can we consider robots as comrades? Can we imagine robots going on strike against their own instrumentation? Part of the larger Verso roundtable on "Unlearning Imperialism."

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German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator Hito Steyerl mediates on the function of art in the era of digital globalization. In this excerpt Steyerl explains the future of the design of killing, taken from her chapter: ‘How to Kill People: A Problem of Design’.

In this excerpt from Duty Free Art, Hito Steyerl questions the emerging role of contemporary art as currency in the age of planetary civil war: an era marked by rising inequality and rapid technological change.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi responds to Hito Steyerl's book Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Everywhere we turn, technology promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost?