On Purposefully Poor Images: Aesthetic Encounters with Alienation

This article introduces the concept of purposefully poor images. Building on Hito Steyerl’s theory of poor images as images that travel through networks and lose resolution and information, (2009) the theory of the purposefully poor image looks at the phenomenon of images that are produced with the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucie Chateau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2023-01-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/12085