Beyond the Image: On Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century Publisher / The Design Museum from the Renaissance up to

from the Renaissance up to the modern day

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Beyond the Image: On Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century Publisher / The Design Museum from the Renaissance up to112 pages Paperback By Alessandro Sbordoni A guide to understanding the degraded state of images in the 21st century, from social media to AI and beyond. From brainrot to deepfakes, from NFTs to AI slop, the function of the image in contemporary life has devolved from representation to the reproduction of capital, resulting in our Baudrillardean hyperreality. From the Kardashians to Donald Trump, from Pepe the Frog to Paris Hilton, the nihilism of the