Jonathan Beller

The World Computer

Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010135
• ISBN-10: 1478010134
• Artikelnr.: 60323384

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Beller is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital and The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
I. Computational Racial Capitalism
Introduction: The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer  3
1. The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation  63
II. The Computational Mode of Production
2. M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital  101
3. M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's
"Concise Style"  139
III. Derivative Conditions
4. Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival  175
5. An Engine and a Camera  206
6. Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative,
Cryptocurrency as Film  222
Appendix 1. The Derivative Machine: Life Cut, Bundled and Sold—Notes on the
Cinema  255
Appendix 2. The Derivative Image: Interview by Susana Nascimento Duarte 
267
Notes  285
References  301
Index  315