New Aesthetic, New Anxieties by David Berry

This book examines the emergence of a distinctly digital visual sensibility—where pixelation, glitches, machine vision and networked imagery intersect—and argues that these aesthetic shifts reveal and intensify contemporary anxieties about automation, surveillance, authorship and the changing boundary between human and machine perception. Drawing on art criticism, media theory and cultural examples, it shows how new forms of image-making and algorithmic representation both reflect social and political fears (about labor, control and identity) and actively reshape how we imagine technological futures and creative possibility.