The Message is Murder Substrates of Computational Capital

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
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