Capitalist Death Drives and Coin Test China High-Speed Rail Videos
DNA #15
Edited by Anselm Franke. Text by Ho Rui An.
A close examination of two distinct modalities through which vision and motion have converged against late capitalism
Considering the phenomenon of dashcam footage alongside a video testing the stability of China’s high-speed rail system by balancing a coin on a window ledge of a moving train, this essay examines how the discontents of late capitalism become observable, and by extension are imagined as governable.
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Capitalist Death Drives and Coin Test China High-Speed Rail Videos DNA #15
Published by Spector Books. Edited by Anselm Franke. Text by Ho Rui An.
A close examination of two distinct modalities through which vision and motion have converged against late capitalism
Considering the phenomenon of dashcam footage alongside a video testing the stability of China’s high-speed rail system by balancing a coin on a window ledge of a moving train, this essay examines how the discontents of late capitalism become observable, and by extension are imagined as governable.
