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Media Hot and Cold (Elements) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 9: Elements

Starosielski, Nicole

 
9781478014546: Media Hot and Cold (Elements)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478014547 ISBN 13: 9781478014546
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermostats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twentieth century, heat and cold were broadcast through mass thermal media. Today, digital thermal media such as bodily air conditioners offer personalized forms of thermal communication and comfort. Although these new media promise to help mitigate the uneven effects of climate change, Starosielski shows how they can operate as a form of biopower by determining who has the ability to control their own thermal environment. In this way, thermal media can enact thermal violence in ways that reinforce racialized, colonial, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies. By outlining how the control of temperature reveals power relations, Starosielski offers a framework to better understand the dramatic transformations of hot and cold media in the twenty-first century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicole Starosielski is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, author of The Undersea Network, and coeditor of Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478014547
ISBN 13 
9781478014546
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
298
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