[Commlist] New book "Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images" published

New book "Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images"
eds. Catherine Bouko and Nataliia Laba
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.1201/9781003740261/six-critical-lenses-ai-generated-images-nataliia-laba-catherine-bouko 


The book Six Critical Lenses on AI-generated Images offers six critical, 
interdisciplinary approaches to AI-generated images. It invites the 
reader to (re-)imagine relationships between artefacts and media, 
authorship and agency, creativity and commodification, representation, 
and visual style. Across the chapters, the book examines three realities 
of AI images, from sociotechnical fabrics, through semiotic interfaces, 
to representations and aesthetics.

Drawing on media studies, philosophy of technology, multimodality 
studies, critical AI studies, and visual communication studies, the book 
pursues the following interconnected topics:

(1) addressing pataphysical and sociomaterial engagements with AI image 
making,

(2) theorizing distributed and probabilistic forms of agency through the 
concept of vector agency,

(3) analysing interfaces and affordances of visual generative AI via 
multimodal walkthroughs,

(4) conceptualising prompting as a cultural practice that reshapes agency,

(5) mapping representational patterns and emerging visual genres in 
AI-generated imagery,

(6) interrogating how visual AI styles are co-produced by machines, 
users, and generative platform politics.

These six critical lenses offer complementary perspectives to 
understanding the complex ecosystem surrounding AI image production.

Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images is intended for scholars, 
graduate students, and practitioners working with visual generative AI 
in both analytical and creative contexts. Ultimately, the book calls for 
a reflexive and responsible engagement with increasingly AI-mediated 
visual culture.

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