Book ID: CBB870212976

Media Hot and Cold (2021)

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Starosielski, Nicole (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Choi, Kyungsub Stephen
Archambault, Julie Soleil
Fernandez, Rodrigo
Tehya Stockman
Lynn B. Spigel
Ann Gray
Concepts
Communication technology
Technology and society
Communication
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Surveillance
Telephones, cellular
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Mozambique
Institutions
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
United States. National Security Agency
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