The Message is Murder Substrates of Computational Capital

The Message is Murder Substrates of Computational Capital

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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 u...

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Main Author: Beller, Jonathan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Pluto Press 2017
Subjects:
Media studies
Political Science
Capitalism
Media Studies
Marshall McLuhan
Violence
Borges
Turing
Claude Shannon
Hitchcock
Marx
Computational Capital
Power
Digital Culture
Political Economy
Race & Ethnicity
Gender
Photography
Racism
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9781786801784;9781786801791
Access:Open Access

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