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“... affects’. Steyerl offers these last four terms (adapted from Thomas Elsaesser, Rem Koolhaas, Harun Farocki and Steven Shaviro respectively) as part of her lexicon for survival in a contemporary life caught in the capitalist Web. In her view this life threatens to become an endless match of Captcha (as in ‘Completely Automated Public Turing Test to ...”

“... he attempts to get inside its mechanisms. In this he follows the lead of the late German filmmaker Harun Farocki, who, according to Paglen, ‘entered the sound stages, editing rooms, post-production houses and techno-military laboratories’ in order ‘to show humans how a machine is seeing’ (or, more precisely, scanning). Where Paglen once evoked ...”

“... and inherent transcendence afforded by the waking dream of the cinematographic process’. Haroun Farocki and Kaja Silverman, in contrast, adopt a microscopic approach, writing about only eight films in an exercise of what they describe as ‘close reading’, concentrating on specific sequences and shots within each film. Their book is bravely experimental ...”