The Future of Attention with Hito Steyerl
The Film Comment Podcast
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How Do You Intervene in Long Crises?
Even when you're dealing with weak news, you are still concerned with how to draw people to it. I mean, so one problem with this kind of the fast moving nature of news and attention is how do you then comment on long crises? On long slow crises like climate change, which is dire and urgent. But it's the kind of slow moving crises that move at different places based on where you are in the world. In Ukraine, we are hardly seeing any pipelines, any infrastructure, any sort of logistics. Of course, as in war reporting or war photography, a lot of destruction,. a lot of catastrophe and injury. So in that way, it's kind of the opposite example
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