How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI by Paglen, Trevor
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI by Paglen, Trevor

How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI

We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started...
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Author: Trevor Paglen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI by Paglen, Trevor

How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI

$29.94
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI by Paglen, Trevor

How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI

$29.94
Author: Trevor Paglen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker and thinker.

Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indistinguishable from reality for us to explore. Trevor Paglen goes in search of the ways and means of understanding this new visual universe. Instead of asking what these technologies "say" about the world, he teaches us to ask what they "do" and where such images come from.

Exploring the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians, and public relation gurus, Paglen shows that this appar­ently alien realm is more human, but much stranger, than we imagine.

Author: Trevor Paglen
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/19/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.68w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781836742166


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2026 pg. 108
Foreword 04/27/2026

About the Author
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Fondazione Prada, Milan; and the Barbican Centre, London. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times, Artforum, and Aperture. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award and, in 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.
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