Control : digitality as cultural logic / Seb Franklin.

Main entry:

Franklin, Seb, 1982-

Title & Author:

Control : digitality as cultural logic / Seb Franklin.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xxii, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Leonardo

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Digitality without computers -- Introduction: the computer as metaphor -- Control -- Cybernetics, or the digitization of the social -- Digitality as cultural logic -- On representation -- Text before images, or the logic of digital worlds -- From narrated subjects to programmable objects -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

Addresses the conditions of knowledge that meke the concept of the "information economy" possible while at the same time obscuring its deleterious effects on material social spaces, including reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity and intensification of older modes of exclusion and dispossession.

ISBN:

9780262029537 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262029537 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Information technology Social aspects.
Cybernetics.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Cybernétique.
cybernetics.
Media Studies.

Added entries:

Leonardo books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292051
Call No.: BIB 236043
Status: Available

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