The World Computer
Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2021
352 pages
978-1-4780-1270-2 (ISBN)
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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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Jonathan Beller is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of The Message is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital and The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle.
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
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
