Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 338 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-4780-1270-2
Series Statement:
Thought in the act
Content:
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression-language, image, music, communication-into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4780-1013-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-1116-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9781478012702
DOI:
10.1215/9781478012702
URL:
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URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012702
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478012702
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