Circulationism

In such a situation, Steyerl advocates, echoing Benjamin, an updated form of critical-cultural barbarism in the guise of a strategy of 'circulationism' – an emphasis on 'postproducing, launching, and accelerating' an image.

Here, for Steyerl, “circulationism” is an appropriate descriptor: What the Soviet avant‐garde of the twentieth century called productivism – the claim that art should enter production and the factory – could now be replaced by circulationism.