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Media hot and cold / Nicole Starosielski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Elements (Duke University Press)
- Elements
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Body temperature--Regulation--Social aspects.
- Body temperature.
- Temperature sense--Social aspects.
- Temperature sense.
- Global temperature changes.
- Human beings--Effect of climate on.
- Human beings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Thermostat : the thermal subjects of broadcast temperature
- Coldsploitation : the thermal attractions of cool air
- Sweatbox : the thermal violence of weaponized heat
- Heat ray : the thermal circuits of radiant media
- Infrared camera : the thermal vision of heat images
- Computer : the coldward course of media
- Conclusion: Media after the melt.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Starosielski, Nicole, 1984- Media hot and cold.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013617
- 1478013613
- 9781478014546
- 1478014547
- OCLC:
- 1231548237
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