The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value

SEB FRANKLIN

Informasi Dasar

51 kali
22.21.445
303.48
Buku - Elektronik (E-Book)
Tel-U Gedung Manterawu Lantai 5 : Rak 7a
Tel-U Purwokerto : Rak 4

Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside nineteenth-century accounts of intellectual labor, twentieth-century sociometric experiments, and a range of literary and visual works, The Digitally Disposed locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism.

Franklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital’s apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into productive circuits represents an “informatics of value.” On the one hand, understanding value as an informatic relation helps to explain why capital was able to graft so seamlessly with digitality at a moment in which it required more granular and distributed control over labor—the moment that is often glossed as the age of logistics. On the other hand, because the informatics of value sort populations into positions of higher and lower capacity, value, and status, understanding their relationship to digitality requires that we see the digital as racialized and gendered in pervasive ways.

Ultimately, The Digitally Disposed questions the universalizing assumptions that are maintained, remade, and intensified by today’s dominant digital technologies. Vital and far-reaching, The Digitally Disposed reshapes such fundamental concepts as cybernetics, informatics, and digitality.

Subjek

SOCIAL CHANGE
 

Katalog

The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value
978-1-5179-0715-0
267p.: pdf file.; 2 MB
English

Sirkulasi

Rp. 0
Rp. 0
Tidak

Pengarang

SEB FRANKLIN
Perorangan
 
 

Penerbit

University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London
UK
2021

Koleksi

Kompetensi

 

Download / Flippingbook

 

Ulasan

Belum ada ulasan yang diberikan
anda harus sign-in untuk memberikan ulasan ke katalog ini