02375 am 22004813u 450 991025544490332120200626164235.01-78680-179-51-78680-178-7(CKB)4100000001796128(MiAaPQ)EBC5391078(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124968(OCoLC)1024051104(ScCtBLL)4ded4785-f5b1-4fd4-b535-d3434bdf0c05(EXLCZ)99410000000179612820200626d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe message is murder substrates of computational capital /Jonathan BellerLondon :Pluto Press,2018.1 online resource (225 pages)Includes index.0-7453-3730-9 0-7453-3731-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Violence in mass mediaDigital mediaSocial aspectsCapitalismSocial aspectsViolence in mass media.Digital mediaSocial aspects.CapitalismSocial aspects.303.6Beller Jonathan705855WaSeSSWaSeSSBOOK9910255444903321The message is murder2106475UNINA