Speculative Violence: The Visual Politics of AI-Powered Authoritarianism

A theoretically innovative account of the role of generative AI in transforming the political, visual, and imaginative landscape of our contemporary world

The authoritarian Right is using generative AI to blur the boundary between fiction and forecast, anticipating and normalizing acts of colonial destruction. Speculative Violence traces generative AI’s ability to shape actions and beliefs in the present by seizing and rendering our imagination of the future through seamless aesthetics. Wit...