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Software, Infrastructure, Labor
A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares
Taschenbuch von Ned Rossiter
Sprache: Englisch

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Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure. Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes of calculation and containment.

We live in a computational age where media, again, disappear into the background as infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical politics today.
Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of capture are prone to infrastructural breakdown, sabotage, and failure. Strategies of evasion, anonymity, and disruption unsettle regimes of calculation and containment.

We live in a computational age where media, again, disappear into the background as infrastructure. Software, Infrastructure, Labor intercuts transdisciplinary theoretical reflection with empirical encounters ranging from the Cold War legacy of cybernetics, shipping ports in China and Greece, the territoriality of data centers, video game design, and scrap metal economies in the e-waste industry. Rossiter argues that infrastructural ruins serve as resources for the collective design of blueprints and prototypes demanded of radical politics today.
Über den Autor

Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication with a joint appointment in the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Chapter 1. Introduction: Logistical Media Theory. Chapter 2. Logistical Worlds. Chapter 3. Into the Cloud. Chapter 4. Economies of Waste. Chapter 5. New Regimes of Knowledge Production. Chapter 6. Coded Vanilla. Chapter 7. Imperial Infrastructures. Chapter 8. Sovereign Media and the Ruins of a Logistical Future. Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780415843058
ISBN-10: 0415843057
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rossiter, Ned
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Ned Rossiter
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,329 kg
Artikel-ID: 128450854
Über den Autor

Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication with a joint appointment in the Institute for Culture and Society and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Chapter 1. Introduction: Logistical Media Theory. Chapter 2. Logistical Worlds. Chapter 3. Into the Cloud. Chapter 4. Economies of Waste. Chapter 5. New Regimes of Knowledge Production. Chapter 6. Coded Vanilla. Chapter 7. Imperial Infrastructures. Chapter 8. Sovereign Media and the Ruins of a Logistical Future. Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780415843058
ISBN-10: 0415843057
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rossiter, Ned
Hersteller: Routledge
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Ned Rossiter
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,329 kg
Artikel-ID: 128450854
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