Message is Murder (eBook)

Substrates of Computational Capital

Jonathan Beller (Autor)

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2017
224 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-1-78680-179-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.

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Written as a wake-up call to the field of media studies, 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. It argues that the global intensification of inequality relies on the discursive, informatic and screen-mediated production of social difference.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.

Inhalt

Introduction


Part I: Informatics of Inscription/Inscription of Informatics


1. Gramsci’s Press: Why We Game


2. A Message from Borges: The Informatic Labyrinth


3. Alan Turing’s Self-Defense: On Not Castrating the Machines


4. Shannon/Hitchcock: Another Method for the Letters


5. The Internet of Value, by Karl Marx: Information as Cosmically Distributed Alienation


Part II: Photo-graphology, Psychotic Calculus and Informatic Labor


6. Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing with Light


7. Pathologistics of Attention


8. Prosthetics of Whiteness: Drone Psychosis


9. The Capital of Information: Fractal 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


Notes


Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Capitalism • Colonialism • Commodities • Decolonization • Digital Culture • Existentialism • Fascism • Fetishism • Freud • Gramsci • Guy Debord • hegemony • Information • Jacques Lacan • Jorge Luis Borges • Karl Marx • Labor • Marshall McLuhan • MONEY • Patriarchy • Racism • Revolution • Subjectivity • Violence • Walter Benjamin • white supremacy
• ISBN-10: 1-78680-179-5 / 1786801795
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78680-179-1 / 9781786801791