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Title: THE MESSAGE IS MURDER
SUBSTRATES OF COMPUTATIONAL CAPITAL
By: Jonathan Beller
Format: Hardback

List price: £75.00


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ISBN 10: 0745337317
ISBN 13: 9780745337319
Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
Pub. date: 15 November, 2017
Pages: 192
Description: A compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.
Synopsis: 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 differenceUltimately, 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Pluto Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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