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The World Computer – Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism: Thought in the Act

Autor Jonathan Beller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2021
In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression--language, image, music, communication--into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478011163
ISBN-10: 1478011165
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Thought in the Act


Cuprins

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

Descriere

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.