Information is a central concept for Jonathan Beller’s book World Computer. For Beller, the drastic increase of information implies the possibility of concluding a derivative contract on any phenomenon, which does not mean anything else than that the existence of […]
Jonathan Bellers`s World Computer – The automatic Horror of liquid Super-World-Capital
Exzerpt from the book “In the Delirium of the Simulation. Baudrillard Revisted” : https://non.copyriot.com/in-the-delirium-of-the-simulation-baudrillard-revisited-by-achim-szepanski/ At important points in his study, Beller turns to the transformation of Marx’s reproduction cycles. The movement from image to code and back to a transformed
Excursus on Jonathan Beller’s World Computer
Today, there are surely more images in circulation and more vis-ibility than ever before. This is due mostly to the diffusion of digital technologies in the context of global capitalism. The following paper undertakes to address this situation by relating
The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, put aside, place another image behind itself, to come to light. The image of the Sun is, in this regard,
Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence
My argument is that Baudrillard continuously said that “everything is simulation (or virtual)” rather than saying that “there is more and more simulation (or virtuality)” because the diagnosis of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, and hyperreality in contemporary culture is not the
Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future
When Shoshana Zuboff published The Age of Surveillance Capitalism four years ago, I remember feeling skeptical and slightly guarded. You’re telling me the Harvard Business School hates Facebook now too? Okay, sure, welcome comrade…better late than never. Zuboff’s book is
Note: Earlier versions of this paper were presented as two keynote addresses in 2018. First, at the 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – ‘Applied Baudrillard’ – held in Oxford, England (September 5th to 7th). My opening keynote
Baudrillard’s Photographic Theory
As in Joseph Vogl’s new book Capital and Ressentment, information is also a central concept for Jonathan Beller’s book World Computer. For Beller, the drastic increase of information implies the possibility of concluding a derivative contract on any phenomenon, which
In den “kulturellen” Räumen bieten sich die Repräsentanten derselben (alias Subjekte) heute als Profile oder Marken an, die selbst nicht nur an sich schon, sondern auch als derivative Exposition gegenüber ihren Rezipienten vermarktbar sind, nämlich ihrem Publikum, ihren Netzwerken, ihren
Geld gleich Information? Zu den Neuen Büchern von Vogl und Beller (2)
Jonathan Beller’s new book, The World Computer, is on the intimate relation between information and power. Characterized by the author as “political in intention, speculative in execution, and concrete in its engagement” (70), the book touches on computers, photography, film,
Shane Denson’s new book Discorrelated Images has captured my attention in recent weeks. It’s a fascinating investigation into the contemporary image, with an emphasis on cinema but spilling over into other forms of image-making. Denson has carved out a niche
Studies in Superlative Discorrelation