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The message is murder :

0745337309

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1786801787

1786801795

1786801809

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9780745337319

9781786801784

9781786801791

9781786801807

9780745337302

9780745337319

The message is murder :

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substrates of computational capital /

Jonathan Beller.

London :

PlutoPress,

2017.

©2017

1 online resource

PART I : Informatics of inscription / inscription of informatics. Gramscis press : predictions and programs -- A message from Borges : the informatic labyrinth -- Alan Turings self-defense : on not castrating the machines -- Shannon/Hitchcock : another method for the letters -- The internet of value, by Karl Marx : information as cosmically distributed alienation -- PART II : Photo-graphology, psychotic calculus and informatic labor. Camera obscura after all : the racist writing with light -- Pathologistics of attention -- Prosthetics of whiteness : drone psychosis -- The capital of information : fascism, informatic labor and M-I-M -- Appendix : From the cinematic mode of production to computational capital An interview conducted by Ante Jeric and Diana Meheik for Kulturpunk.

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The Message is Murder analyses the violence bound up in the everyday functions of digital media. At its core is the concept of 'computational capital' - the idea that capitalism itself is a computer, turning qualities into quantities, and that the rise of digital culture and technologies under capitalism should be seen as an extension of capitalism's bloody logic. Engaging with Borges, Turing, Claude Shannon, Hitchcock and Marx, this book tracks computational capital to reveal the lineages of capitalised power as it has restructured representation, consciousness and survival in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ultimately The Message is Murder makes the case for recognising media communications across all platforms - books, films, videos, photographs and even language itself - as technologies of political economy, entangled with the social contexts of a capitalism that is inherently racial, gendered and genocidal.

Knowledge Unlatched

JSTOR

Pluto Press

100920

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9781786801791

9780745337319

Capitalism-- Social aspects.

Digital media-- Social aspects.

Mass media-- Social aspects.

Violence in mass media.

Capitalism-- Social aspects.

COMPUTERS-- Computerized Home & Entertainment.

Digital media-- Social aspects.

Mass media-- Social aspects.

Media studies.

Society and culture : general.

Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.

Violence in mass media.

COM-- 086000

Beller, Jonathan

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