Digitally Disposed (Franklin Seb)
Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalismSeb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality's racial-capitalist foundations. The…
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Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalismSeb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality's racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed 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, The Digitally Disposed locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism.Franklin makes the groundbreaking argument that capital's apparently spontaneous synthesis of so-called free individuals into