The Message is Murder

Jonathan Beller

Description

Written as a wake-up call to the field of media studies, 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. It argues that the global intensification of inequality relies on the discursive, informatic and screen-mediated production of social difference.



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.

Introduction

Part I: Informatics of Inscription/Inscription of Informatics

1. Gramsci’s Press: Why We Game

2. A Message from Borges: The Informatic Labyrinth

3. Alan Turing’s Self-Defense: On Not Castrating the Machines

4. Shannon/Hitchcock: Another Method for the Letters

5. The Internet of Value, by Karl Marx: Information as Cosmically Distributed Alienation

Part II: Photo-graphology, Psychotic Calculus and Informatic Labor

6. Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing with Light

7. Pathologistics of Attention

8. Prosthetics of Whiteness: Drone Psychosis

9. The Capital of Information: Fractal Fascism, Informatic Labor and M-I-M’

Appendix: From the Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital – An Interview conducted by Ante Jeric and Diana Meheik for Kulturpunk

Notes

Index

Sujets

• Economic Policy
• Public Policy
• Media Studies
• Social Science
• COMPUTERS
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Sociologie, société et politique
• 21st century
• Political economy
• Capitalism
• World
• LAW
• Jacques Lacan
• Guy Debord
• Networking
• Marshall McLuhan
• Walter Benjamin
• Discrimination
• Antonio Gramsci
• Karl Marx
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Sigmund Freud

Informations

• Publié par: Pluto Press
• Date de parution: 20 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786801784
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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