The other side of the digital : the sacrificial economy of new media / Andrea Righi.

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"The Other Side of the Digital provides a necessary, in-depth cultural analysis of how the political theology of the new media functions under neoliberalism"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Righi, Andrea, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Information society > Philosophy.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Neoliberalism.
Physical Description:275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: the sexed truth of neoliberal digitality
  • Transcendence: Moses, or the other of the other
  • Knowledge: online fee-ding as the solution to Meno's paradox
  • Desire: the ballistic sexuality of drones and tinder
  • Writing: the quantified self and digital accountability
  • Temporality: turks, mammets, and digital crowdworking platforms
  • Woman: love and automated profit
  • Hysteria: the Moses of Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Passivity: the other as other.