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“... prompt. In the punchy bulletins collected in Duty Free Art, the German media artist and theorist Hito Steyerl describes this condition, which we might call ‘the algorithmic nonconscious’, as follows: ‘Contemporary perception is machinic to a large degree. The spectrum of human vision only covers a tiny part of it. Electric charges, radio ...”

“... And it is possible that our interior lives aren’t much better protected. In Machine-Readable Hito (2017) Paglen subjected hundreds of photos of the German artist Hito Steyerl to an algorithmic facial-recognition program to evaluate how it gauged not only objective factors like age but also subjective states like ...”

“... In his book Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers, the geographer Stephen Graham quotes Hito Steyerl, a German video artist: ‘Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.’* Call it ground-zero vertigo. Non-specific paranoia. Territory, as soon as it ...”