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"Seb Franklin 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"--
"Seb Franklin 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"--
Über den Autor

Seb Franklin is senior lecturer in contemporary literature in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is author of Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Forms of Disposal

Part I. The Informatics of Value

1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods

2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects

3. The Informatics of Dispossession

4. Differentiation as Regulation

5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryóna

Part II. Media Histories of Disposal

6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person

7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility

8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor

9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s Typhoon coming on

10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances

11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality

12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”

Coda: The Human Surge

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Medienwissenschaften
Genre: Importe, Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781517907150
ISBN-10: 1517907152
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Franklin, Seb
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 212 x 137 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Seb Franklin
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 119610195

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