Fragment from The Message Is Murder

Bibliographic Data

ID2926067
AuthorsJonathan Beller (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume34
Issue3
Pages137-152
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Text (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01642472-3607660
OpenAlexW2550157525
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

This fragment is drawn from The Message Is Murder, a work in progress that includes statistically discrepant readings of Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Turing, and Karl Marx, in addition to the engagements with Claude E. Shannon and Alfred Hitchcock present here. These readings are offered as a kind of riposte to Marshall McLuhan's formulation "The medium is the message" at a moment when it has become even more undeniable that the media (linguistic, visual, computational, financial) are the media of racial capitalism. The Message Is Murder is itself part of an investigation of what I call the computational unconscious - that is, the programmatic unthought of my own critical analytic for the regime of racial capitalism, namely, computational capital

Algorithm · Art · Art history · Capitalism · Epistemology · Late capitalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Turing · Unconscious mind · Visual arts · Computer Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Modern American Literature Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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