Seb Franklin

The Digitally Disposed

Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value

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Produktbeschreibung

"Seb Franklin shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation"--

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Produktdetails

• Electronic Mediations
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 137mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781517907150
• ISBN-10: 1517907152
• Artikelnr.: 61101806

Autorenporträt

Seb Franklin is senior lecturer in contemporary literature in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is author of Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Forms of Disposal
Part I. The Informatics of Value
1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods
2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects
3. The Informatics of Dispossession
4. Differentiation as Regulation
5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryóna
Part II. Media Histories of Disposal
6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person
7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility
8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor
9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s Typhoon coming on
10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances
11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality
12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”
Coda: The Human Surge
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index