Description: Jonathan Beller traces the history of the commodification of information and the financialization of everyday life, showing how contemporary capitalism is based in algorithms and the quantification of value that intensify social inequality.
Review Quotes: "The World Computer has been published at an opportune moment, a moment that calls for further theoretical explanation of the social horrors that 'computational racial capital' mediates and produces. Its greatest strength lies in its provocative and synthetic reading of research across fields."--Cengiz Salman "The Communication Review"