{"product_id":"the-digitally-disposed-racial-capitalism-and-the-informatics-of-value-paperback-softback-9781517907150","title":"The Digitally Disposed; Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517907150","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRacial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSeb Franklin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517907150\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 31 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.332 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing beautifully on Black, Indigenous, postcolonial, and anti-racist feminist cultural theory, Seb Franklin offers a bold and rigorous critique of the social and epistemological processes of dispossession and abjection undergirding the informatics of value. This is a significant and powerful intervention, demonstrating the intimate intertwining of digitality and value-two linked modes of abstraction that shape social forms of free, self-possessed personhood only through the enactment of racialized and gendered forms of disposal. Through brilliant readings of the works of Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Samuel Delany, Sondra Perry, and Charles Babbage and extensive original archival research in the history of cybernetics, Franklin carefully tracks and restores what both information theory and dominant digital culture, in their fantasies of pure transmission and frictionless connection, depend on yet disavow: that is, the historical and present material violence of slavery, dispossession, unwaged reproduction, and superfluous populations at the heart of racial capitalism. An indispensable work, a model of critically engaged, synthetic scholarship, and an urgent reminder that ‘other ways of being free’ persist in forging connectivity beyond the informatics of value.\"-Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Why has digital culture perpetuated new forms of racial and gender inequality despite early hopes that it would make users more equal? Seb Franklin’s lucid readings of information theory and its affinities with the history of slavery and dispossession show the reader how informatics emerges historically through racial-capitalist dynamics. This book is a major contribution to the study of race, gender, and capacity as the foundation upon which the digital stands. Elegant, important, and compelling.\"-Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's a brilliant moment-one of many-in Seb Franklin's new book, that turns the cyberlibertarian term 'digital native' inside out. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e's close readings, at once minute and expansive, demonstrate the deep and insidious connections between cybernetics, racial capitalism, and digital culture.\"-\u003ci\u003eMedia History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e establishes itself as critical reading and inspiration for the digital present, highlighting the continued need for anti-racist and anti-capitalist scholarship capable of rethinking the forms of knowledge and relation that connect our world.\"-\u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through discriminating, situated readings, Franklin teases out how a logic of 'digitality' and 'disposal' takes shape at the sidelines of science and capitalism... These readings resonate with a larger strength of the book, Franklin’s knack for identifying overlooked fragments from a scientific career... [and] elicits from these works clues of still largely neglected economic and racial histories shaping digital infrastructures today.\"-\u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. \u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside nineteenth-century accounts of intellectual labor, twentieth-century sociometric experiments, and a range of literary and visual works, \u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital’s apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into productive circuits represents an “informatics of value.” On the one hand, understanding value as an informatic relation helps to explain why capital was able to graft so seamlessly with digitality at a moment in which it required more granular and distributed control over labor-the moment that is often glossed as the age of logistics. On the other hand, because the informatics of value sort populations into positions of higher and lower capacity, value, and status, understanding their relationship to digitality requires that we see the digital as racialized and gendered in pervasive ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e questions the universalizing assumptions that are maintained, remade, and intensified by today’s dominant digital technologies. Vital and far-reaching, \u003ci\u003eThe Digitally Disposed\u003c\/i\u003e reshapes such fundamental concepts as cybernetics, informatics, and digitality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Forms of Disposal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. The Informatics of Value\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Things Communicated: Messages, Persons, Goods\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Reliable Circuits, Unreliable Components: How Capital Connects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Informatics of Dispossession\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Differentiation as Regulation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Two Models: Samuel R. Delany’s\u003ci\u003e NeveryÓna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Media Histories of Disposal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Human Use, or The Digital-Liberal Person\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Elemental Space: Coloniality and Flexibility\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Deplorable Alternatives: “Mechanical Slaves” and Upgradable Labor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. The Digital Atlantic: Sondra Perry’s\u003ci\u003e Typhoon coming on\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Redundant Life: Intellectual Workers and Street Nuisances\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Anatomizing “Freedom”: Carceral Digitality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. The Cybernetics of Capacity: R.S. Hunt’s “Two Kinds of Work”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoda: \u003ci\u003eThe Human Surge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676610195736,"sku":"9781517907150","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-digitally-disposed-racial-capitalism-and-the-informatics-of-value-paperback-softback-9781517907150","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}