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White Heat Cold Logic British Computer Art 1960–1980 (MIT Press)

The history of a pioneering era of early British digital and computer-based art. Academic level scholarship in the essays collected here.

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Another great share, thanks Paul 🙏
What does "White Heat" in the title refer to?

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Oxford Dictionary says: 
the temperature or state of something that is so hot that it emits white light.
or:
a state of intense passion or activity.
"she had written the letter in a white heat of indignation"
Fits both as opposing cold logic

I have a heavy earwig now, thanks to you mentioning VU 😎

I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man

I don't know if there was an explicit reference to "White Heat" in any of the essays, but my memory might be letting me down there as I did read it more than 10 years ago! I can't see an references in my notes. "White Heat" always makes me think of the Velvet Underground :) Same era.