UID:
almafu_9958346348202883
Format:
1 online resource (225 pages)
ISBN:
9781786801791
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1786801795
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9781786801784
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1786801787
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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PART I: Informatics of inscription / inscription of informatics. Gramsci's press: predictions and programs -- A message from Borges: the informatic labyrinth -- Alan Turing's 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745337302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0745337309
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745337319
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0745337317
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
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URL:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30759
URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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