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- The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism (T
- ISBN
- 9781478011163
- Publication Name
- World Computer : Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Series
- Thought in the Act Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478011165
ISBN-13
9781478011163
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28050096083
Product Key Features
Publication Name
World Computer : Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Thought in the Act Ser.
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
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Hm1206.B455 2021
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In The World Computer , Jonathan Beller charts the lineage and lineaments of 'computational racial capital.' In the code-based mode of capitalist production now consolidating itself with hegemonic reach, the image replaces the commodity as the fundamental value form, and as it does the meaning of labor mutates. Racism, Beller argues, is not just an incidental effect of ambient bias contaminating this new machinery of extraction. It is written into its DNA. The World Computer is a passionate analysis of how the phase-shift of contemporary capitalism we are currently experiencing carries forward from its colonial past a coefficient of exploitation that intensifies apace with capital's exponentially increasing powers of abstraction. Beller's provocative genealogy of contemporary capitalism is an essential contribution to understanding the evolving economy as a formation of power, in symbiosis with systemic racism., The World Computer has been published at an opportune moment, a moment that calls for further theoretical explanation of the social horrors that 'computational racial capital' mediates and produces. Its greatest strength lies in its provocative and synthetic reading of research across fields., A must read for those across multiple fields, including digital culture and sociology, software and media studies, as well as science and technology studies. . . . The World Computer demonstrate[s] that digital technologies, algorithms, and AI cannot be deracialized without an undoing -- and overcoming -- of the social relations that they are part of., Tackling one of the most important issues in media and technology theory today--the intimate and ancient involvement between information and power--Jonathan Beller has written a bold book with intellectual originality, sociopolitical relevance, and evocative power.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2021
Topic
Sociology / General, Political, Political Ideologies / General
Lccn
2020-029359
Dewey Decimal
302.23
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
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