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Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.
List of contents
Acknowledgments xi
I. Computational Racial Capitalism
Introduction: The Social Difference Engine and the World Computer 3
1. The Computational Unconscious: Technology as a Racial Formation 63
II. The Computational Mode of Production
2. M-I-C-I'-M': The Programmable Image of Photo-Capital 101
3. M-I-M': Informatic Labor and Data-Visual Interruptions in Capital's "Concise Style" 139
III. Derivative Conditions
4. Advertisarial Relations and Aesthetics of Survival 175
5. An Engine
and a Camera 206
6. Derivative Living and Subaltern Futures: Film as Derivative, Cryptocurrency as Film 222
Appendix 1. The Derivative Machine: Life Cut, Bundled and Sold—Notes on the Cinema 255
Appendix 2. The Derivative Image: Interview by Susana Nascimento Duarte 267
Notes 285
References 301
Index 315
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Jonathan Beller
Summary
Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.
