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oapen-20.500.12657-307592024-03-25T09:51:41Z The Message is Murder Beller, Jonathan Political Science Capitalism Media Studies Marshall McLuhan Violence Borges Turing Claude Shannon Hitchcock Marx Computational Capital Power Digital Culture Political Economy Race & Ethnicity Gender Photography Racism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT 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. 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. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:33 2020-04-01T13:12:17Z 2020-04-01T13:12:17Z 2017-11-20 book 642743 OCN: 1024051104 9781786801784;9781786801791 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30759 eng application/pdf n/a 642743.pdf Pluto Press 100920 e7b13f6b-a18c-4c0b-97b8-d1891104b9c4 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781786801784;9781786801791 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100920 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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.
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