Race after information-value

Reivew of Seb Franklin, The Digitally Disposed

Marc Kohlbry ~ RP 2.11 (Winter 2021), pp. 74–77 ~ Review

Seb Franklin, The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2021). 254pp., £86.00 hb., £19.00 pb., 978 1 51790 714 3 hb., 978 1 51790 715 0 pb. As our tech overlords flee a blighted planet, a scholarly consensus is taking shape around the fallout of unchecked innovation and […]

Playing the code: Allegories of control in Civilization

Alexander R. Galloway ~ RP 128 (Nov/Dec 2004) ~ Article

Playing the code Allegories of control in Civilization Alexander R. Galloway With the progressive arrival of new media over the last century or so there appears a sort of lag time, call it the ʻthirty-year ruleʼ, starting from the invention of a medium and ending at its ascent to proper and widespread functioning in culture […]