LEADER 02375 am 22004813u 450 001 9910255444903321 005 20200626164235.0 010 $a1-78680-179-5 010 $a1-78680-178-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000001796128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5391078 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124968 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051104 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4ded4785-f5b1-4fd4-b535-d3434bdf0c05 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001796128 100 $a20200626d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe message is murder $esubstrates of computational capital /$fJonathan Beller 210 1$aLondon :$cPluto Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7453-3730-9 311 $a0-7453-3731-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aViolence in mass media 606 $aDigital media$xSocial aspects 606 $aCapitalism$xSocial aspects 615 0$aViolence in mass media. 615 0$aDigital media$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCapitalism$xSocial aspects. 676 $a303.6 700 $aBeller$b Jonathan$0705855 801 0$bWaSeSS 801 1$bWaSeSS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255444903321 996 $aThe message is murder$92106475 997 $aUNINA