Media Hot and Cold
热媒体与冷媒体
Authors: Nicole Starosielski （妮可·斯塔罗西尔斯基）
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Pages: 296
About Book:
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.
关于书籍：
在《热媒体与冷媒体》中，妮可·斯塔罗西尔斯基考察了温度的文化维度，以理论化热与冷如何能被用作沟通、征服与控制的手段。通过深入探究从红外相机到恒温器再到酷刑汗箱的热媒体历史，斯塔罗西尔斯基探索了温度的多种意义与信息。在二十世纪，热与冷通过大众热媒体进行传播。如今，诸如身体空调之类的数字热媒体提供了个性化的热沟通与舒适形式。尽管这些新媒体有望帮助缓解气候变化的不均衡影响，斯塔罗西尔斯基揭示了它们如何通过决定谁有能力控制自身热环境而运作成一种生命权力。如此，热媒体能够以强化种族化、殖民、性别化与性化的等级制度的方式实施热暴力。通过勾勒温度控制如何揭示权力关系，斯塔罗西尔斯基提供了一个框架，以更好地理解二十一世纪热与冷媒体的剧烈转变。
About Author：
Nicole Starosielski is an American author, researcher, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts research on global internet and media distribution, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions.
关于作者
妮可·斯塔罗西尔斯基（Nicole Starosielski）是美国作家、研究员，现任加州大学伯克利分校教授。她的研究方向涵盖全球互联网与媒体传播、从数据中心到海底光缆的通信基础设施，以及媒体的环境与元素维度。
编译：刘鑫
