The Message Is Murder : Substrates of Computational Capital.
Beller, Jonathan.
The Message Is Murder : Substrates of Computational Capital. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- 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, 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.
A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.
9781786801784
Politics and culture.
Electronic books.
JA75.7 .B455 2018
302.2308
The Message Is Murder : Substrates of Computational Capital. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- 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, 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.
A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.
9781786801784
Politics and culture.
Electronic books.
JA75.7 .B455 2018
302.2308