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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’.

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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.

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In this excerpt from Duty Free Art, Hito Steyerl on spam; a substantial expression of a period that has elevated superfluity into one of its guiding principles.