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Kane, Carolyn L., Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary (external link, opens in new window)  (University of California Press in 2023) 

^{This book offers a critical and aesthetic analysis of the ways in which whiteness has played a central but understudied role in the electronic transformation of twentieth-century urban space.}

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"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.

About the Author

Carolyn L. Kane is author of High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure and Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code.