The Programmable Image of Capital

M-I-C-I′-M′ and the World Computer

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ID16715461
AuthorsJonathan Beller (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume26
Issue2
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePostmodern Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/pmc.2016.0005
OpenAlexW2548451033
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

The selfie and fractal celebrity have become the obverse of what Sylvia Federici calls the system of global apartheid. These results of a financialized attention economy index a shift in the character of both labor and the commodity form towards screen mediated code-work and networked valorization. We can thus rewrite the labor theory of value in relation to image and code, and hypostasize the totalitarian aspirations of capitalism in the notion of “the world computer.” While traditional ontologies are devoured by the new order of value production and extraction, remainders that may be resources for transformation, exit, and defense persist everywhere

Art · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Character (mathematics · Classical economics · Code (set theory · Commodity · Database · Economics · Economy · Image (mathematics · Index (typography · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Order (exchange · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Artificial Intelligence

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