Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat

By:

Steyerl, Hito

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TextPublication details: London: Verso, 2025Description: 178pISBN:

9781804298022 (HB)

Subject(s):

GenAI

DDC classification:

701.05 STE/M

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Summary: Medium Hot is a collection of scintillating meditations on the limits of art and technology: the essential handbook for the present conjuncture. The pieces here probe the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change. She asks whether art can be made not only by machines but for machines. She argues against the production of images that heat up the planet, disfranchise workers and fuel the arms trade, and questions whether such creations can even be called art.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Philosophy Processing Center	Dept. of Philosophy	Non-fiction	701.05 STE/M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	PHL4883

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Medium Hot is a collection of scintillating meditations on the limits of art and technology: the essential handbook for the present conjuncture. The pieces here probe the manufacture and distribution of images in the age of AI and climate change. She asks whether art can be made not only by machines but for machines. She argues against the production of images that heat up the planet, disfranchise workers and fuel the arms trade, and questions whether such creations can even be called art.

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