The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism

by Jonathan Beller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011165
• ISBN13: 9781478011163
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"