The Message is Murder Substrates of Computational Capital / Jonanthan Beller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beller, Jonanthan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100920

ISBN:

9781786801784

OCLC:

1024051104