Electrographic Architecture
New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary
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"If you think that ubiquitous bright urban light is a story solely of technological achievement, then you should read this book. If you want to understand how the American night in particular, mantled in effervescent color, nonetheless remains a narrative of whiteness naturalized, then you must read this book."--Sandy Isenstadt, author of Electric Light: An Architectural History "In this challenging book, Carolyn Kane traces a line from urban electrification to AI spectacle to argue that whiteness is hardly a neutral color but rather expresses the whitewashing, sanitization, and surveillance o...
"If you think that ubiquitous bright urban light is a story solely of technological achievement, then you should read this book. If you want to understand how the American night in particular, mantled in effervescent color, nonetheless remains a narrative of whiteness naturalized, then you must read this book."--Sandy Isenstadt, author of Electric Light: An Architectural History "In this challenging book, Carolyn Kane traces a line from urban electrification to AI spectacle to argue that whiteness is hardly a neutral color but rather expresses the whitewashing, sanitization, and surveillance of a new spatial order."--David E. Nye, author of American Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800-1920
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