Tag: Iconophobia

• Generative AI and the fear of images

  

  This communication is about fear and response — i.e. iconophobia and iconoclasm. The starting point is online artificial intelligence tools such as Midjourney AI, Dall-e, or Stable Diffusion. These platforms generate images from natural language, the so-called “prompts,” in a “text to image” scheme. The paper is divided into two parts. The first argues that…

  Monumentanea

  May 14, 2025

  Design, Generative AI, Iconoclasm, Iconophobia, Image, Non-Human, Non-Human Design

  Generative AI, Hans Belting, Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Horst Bredekamp, Iconoclasm, Iconophobia, Jacques Rancière, Joanna Zylinska, Moholy-Nagy, Nathan Jurgerson, Victor Stoichita, W.J.T. Mitchell