Color Protocols
Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media
$120.96
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2025
Summary
An edited volume that explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media.
What is at stake when categories like color, race, and ethnicity are transformed into a common language, lexicon, or industry standard? And more critically, how can we avoid the epistemic and ontological violence that seems inevitable in organizing color into a series of grammars, syntaxes, indexes, and protocols? Color Protocols offe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553503 |
| Author: | Carolyn L. Kane, Lida Zeitlin-Wu |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Carolyn L. Kane
Carolyn L. Kane is Professor in the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Chromatic Algorithms and Electrographic Architecture.
Lida Zeitlin-Wu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. She is completing a book titled How Color Became a Technology.
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