This presentation draws from Nicole Starosielski’s forthcoming book, "Media Hot and Cold," a feminist and queer rewriting of media theory in the context of digital systems and climate change. It tracks the shifting thermal regimes that structure modern media, from print to digital infrastructures. While media have always been shaped by temperature, computational media systematically re-embeds network production, distribution, and access into both a colonial geography and into the hands of hyperscale media companies. Starosielski calls for a critical temperature studies that can address the connections between thermal contexts and media technologies.

Nicole Starosielski, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, is author or co-editor of "The Undersea Network" (2015), "Media Hot and Cold" (2021), "Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure" (2015), "Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment" (2016), and "Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media" (2021). 

Devin Fore is Professor of German and Co-Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.