{"product_id":"digitally-disposed-9781517907150","title":"Digitally Disposed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 \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 \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","brand":"Seb Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51520956858710,"sku":"9781517907150","price":25.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781517907150.jpg?v=1759967067","url":"https:\/\/www.laufgard.com\/products\/digitally-disposed-9781517907150","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}