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The Digitally Disposed : Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value
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The Digitally Disposed : Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value / Seb Franklin.
ISBN
9781452960777
1452960771
9781452960784
9781517907150
145296078X
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations (chiefly color), color map.
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Electronic mediations ; 61
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.
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