Video installation

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New Extractivism: An Assemblage of Concepts and Allegories

Life in the 21st century is defined by a new form of extractivism. It reaches into the deepest corners of the biosphere and into the deepest layers of the cognitive and affective aspects of the human being: The different layers that determine contemporary technological systems go far beyond data modeling, hardware, servers and networks. Today they reach as far as capital, labor and nature, and demand a great deal from each of them. Vladan Joler’s work brings together different concepts and images of this “new extractivism”. All of them form a project of machinic superstructure, a super-allegory that encompasses the whole world.

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Artist: Vladan Joler

Work included in the exhibition Digital Machines: Technology, Industry and Society.