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.
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September 01 2016
Fragment from The Message Is Murder
Jonathan Beller
Jonathan Beller
Jonathan Beller is professor of humanities and media studies and director of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute. His books include The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle (2006) and Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media System (2006).
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 137–152.
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Jonathan Beller; Fragment from The Message Is Murder. Social Text 1 September 2016; 34 (3 (128)): 137–152. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-3607660
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