Format:
xii, 338 Seiten
ISBN:
9781478010135
,
9781478011163
Series Statement:
Thought in the act
Content:
Computational Racial Capitalism -- The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer -- The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation -- The Computational Mode of Production -- M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital -- M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's "Concise Style" -- Derivative Conditions -- Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival -- An Engine and a Camera -- Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative, Cryptocurrency as Film.
Content:
"The World Computer offers an analysis of the conditions by which computable information colonizes semiotics in racial capitalism's global calculus of who may access how much of the social product and who may be made to die. Taking the notion that Capital was always a computer as a starting point, The World Computer understands the history of the commodification of life as a process of encrypting the world's myriad qualities as quantities. Formal and informal techniques, from double entry bookkeeping and racialization, to the rise of information and discrete state machines, imposed and extended the tyranny of racial capital's relentless calculus of profit. Currently the money-likeness of expression-visible as "likes" and in other attention metrics that treat attention and affect as currency-is symptomatic of the financialization of everyday life. All expression, no matter what its valence, is conscripted by algorithms of profit that intensify inequality by being put in the service of racial capitalism"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478012702
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beller, Jonathan The world computer Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
Language:
English
Keywords:
Massenmedien
;
Massenkommunikation
;
Rassismus
