The World Computer

Author : Jonathan Beller
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012706
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Computer written by Jonathan Beller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The World Computer Jonathan Beller forcefully demonstrates that the history of commodification generates information itself. Out of the omnipresent calculus imposed by commodification, information emerges historically as a new money form. Investigating its subsequent financialization of daily life and colonization of semiotics, Beller situates the development of myriad systems for quantifying the value of people, objects, and affects as endemic to racial capitalism and computation. Built on oppression and genocide, capital and its technical result as computation manifest as racial formations, as do the machines and software of social mediation that feed racial capitalism and run on social difference. Algorithms, derived from for-profit management strategies, conscript all forms of expression—language, image, music, communication—into the calculus of capital such that even protest may turn a profit. Computational media function for the purpose of extraction rather than ameliorating global crises, and financialize every expressive act, converting each utterance into a wager. Repairing this ecology of exploitation, Beller contends, requires decolonizing information and money, and the scripting of futures wagered by the cultural legacies and claims of those in struggle.

Author : Georgina Ferry
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Computer Called LEO written by Georgina Ferry and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world's first office computer and the Lyons Teashop. The Lyons teashops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression, the war, austerity and on into the 1960s and 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history. In the 1930s John Simmons, a young graduate in charge of the clerks' offices that totalled all the bills issued by the Nippies and kept track of the costs of all the tea, cakes and other goods distributed to the nation's cafes and shops, became obsessed by the new ideas of scientific management. He had a dream: to build a machine that would automate the millions of tedious transactions and process them in as little time as possible.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Bryan Pfaffenberger
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Author : Roberto Parodi (biologiste).)
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051991109
Total Pages : 860 pages
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Author : Steve Tupai Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501378996
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Author : Sandeep Gupta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170999362
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Author : Hershel Remer
Publisher : Rabbs.Com
ISBN 13 : 9780615124490
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Jotd the World's Greatest Computer Joke Book written by Hershel Remer and published by Rabbs.Com. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest computer joke book ever! Written by a professional comedian/computer network administrator/rabbi, JOTD boldly makes fun of the world of computer technology, corporate America, and everything else. With a slant towards UNIX and Solaris, it gives great detail to operating systems to satisfy the most astute nerds, but offers enough broad range to reach anyone in the office world. JOTD is outrageously funny where humor doesn't even seem possible to show itself - deep inside the world of Geekdom. And, JOTD isn't just a compilation of wimpy one-liners, but is a collection of full-length caustic satires, zany scripts, and mature material. And, best of all, JOTD is low in fat and cholesterol.

Author : Jonathan Beller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478090380
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The World Computer written by Jonathan Beller and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Computer offers an analysis of the conditions by which computable information colonizes semiotics in racial capitalism's global calculus of who may access how much of the social product and who may be made to die. Taking the notion that Capital was always a computer as a starting point, The World Computer understands the history of the commodification of life as a process of encrypting the world's myriad qualities as quantities. Formal and informal techniques, from double entry bookkeeping and racialization, to the rise of information and discrete state machines, imposed and extended the tyranny of racial capital's relentless calculus of profit. Currently the money-likeness of expression-visible as "likes" and in other attention metrics that treat attention and affect as currency-is symptomatic of the financialization of everyday life. All expression, no matter what its valence, is conscripted by algorithms of profit that intensify inequality by being put in the service of racial capitalism"--