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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794413203321

Autore

Righi Andrea <1974->

Titolo

The other side of the digital : the sacrificial economy of new media / / Andrea Righi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4529-6464-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Information society - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the sexed truth of neoliberal digitality -- Transcendence: Moses, or the other of the other -- Knowledge: online fee-ding as the solution to Meno's paradox -- Desire: the ballistic sexuality of drones and tinder -- Writing: the quantified self and digital accountability -- Temporality: turks, mammets, and digital crowdworking platforms -- Woman: love and automated profit -- Hysteria: the Moses of Bernardo Bertolucci -- Passivity: the other as other.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Other Side of the Digital provides a necessary, in-depth cultural analysis of how the political theology of the new media functions under neoliberalism"--