TY  - GEN
AU  - Beller,Jonathan
TI  - The Message is Murder : Substrates of Computational Capital
SN  - 9781786801784;9781786801791
PY  - 2017///1120
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Media studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - Marshall McLuhan
KW  - Violence
KW  - Borges
KW  - Turing
KW  - Claude Shannon
KW  - Hitchcock
KW  - Marx
KW  - Computational Capital
KW  - Power
KW  - Digital Culture
KW  - Political Economy
KW  - Race & Ethnicity
KW  - Gender
KW  - Photography
KW  - Racism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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