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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.
Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment
are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human
resources during media production to the installation and disposal
of media in the landscape; from people's engagement with
environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the
mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole
Starosielski and Janet Walker, the assembled chapters expose how
the social and representational practices of media culture are
necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and
environments.Through in-depth analyses of media theories,
practices, and objects including cell phone towers,
ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering
radiation, and sound waves traveling through the ocean,
contributors question the sustainability of the media we build,
exchange, and inhabit and chart emerging alternatives for media
ecologies.
The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics
set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture.
They document how logistics-the techniques of organizing and
coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information-has
substantially impacted the production, distribution, and
consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as
paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems
to software are central to the operations of logistics. The
contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film
production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the
environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of
vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have
generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the
specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media
and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics
are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from
the other. Contributors Ebony Coletu, Kay Dickinson, Stefano
Harney, Matthew Hockenberry, Tung-Hui Hu, Shannon Mattern, Fred
Moten, Michael Palm, Ned Rossiter, Nicole Starosielski, Liam Cole
Young, Susan Zieger
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.
The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics
set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture.
They document how logistics-the techniques of organizing and
coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information-has
substantially impacted the production, distribution, and
consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as
paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems
to software are central to the operations of logistics. The
contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film
production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the
environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of
vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have
generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the
specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media
and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics
are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from
the other. Contributors Ebony Coletu, Kay Dickinson, Stefano
Harney, Matthew Hockenberry, Tung-Hui Hu, Shannon Mattern, Fred
Moten, Michael Palm, Ned Rossiter, Nicole Starosielski, Liam Cole
Young, Susan Zieger
Sustainable Media explores the many ways that media and environment
are intertwined from the exploitation of natural and human
resources during media production to the installation and disposal
of media in the landscape; from people's engagement with
environmental issues in film, television, and digital media to the
mediating properties of ecologies themselves. Edited by Nicole
Starosielski and Janet Walker, the assembled chapters expose how
the social and representational practices of media culture are
necessarily caught up with technologies, infrastructures, and
environments.Through in-depth analyses of media theories,
practices, and objects including cell phone towers,
ecologically-themed video games, Geiger counters for registering
radiation, and sound waves traveling through the ocean,
contributors question the sustainability of the media we build,
exchange, and inhabit and chart emerging alternatives for media
ecologies.
In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the
undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their
successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying
almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network
Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to
their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific,
bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making
visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she
charts the cable network's cultural, historical, geographic and
environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments
the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the
network and the connections it enables are made possible by the
deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture,
politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive
digital mapping project, where readers can trace cable routes, view
photographs and archival materials, and read stories about the
island cable hubs.
In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the
undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their
successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying
almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network
Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to
their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific,
bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making
visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she
charts the cable network's cultural, historical, geographic and
environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments
the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the
network and the connections it enables are made possible by the
deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture,
politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive
digital mapping project, where readers can trace cable routes, view
photographs and archival materials, and read stories about the
island cable hubs.
The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material
artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile
telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect
with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and hybrid
forms networks take, the different ways networks are imagined and
engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and
what human beings experience when a network fails. Some
contributors explore the physical objects and industrial relations
that make up an infrastructure. Others venture into the
marginalized communities orphaned from the knowledge economies,
technological literacies, and epistemological questions linked to
infrastructural formation and use. The wide-ranging insights
delineate the oft-ignored contrasts between industrialized and
developing regions, rich and poor areas, and urban and rural
settings, bringing technological differences into focus.
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Paul Dourish, Sarah Harris,
Jennifer Holt and Patrick Vonderau, Shannon Mattern, Toby Miller,
Lisa Parks, Christian Sandvig, Nicole Starosielski, Jonathan
Sterne, and Helga Tawil-Souri.
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