The culture industry: Selected essays on mass culture
Theodor Adorno’s critiques the culture industry, arguing that it commodifies and standardizes art, stifling individuality and critical thought, which remains crucial in today’s media-influenced world.
The cinematic mode of production: Attention economy and the society of the spectacle
Through an analysis of films since the late 1920s, this book explores how cinema exemplifies the transformation of looking into productive labor under capitalism.
Informatic labor in the age of computational capital.
The author discusses how the digital image within neoliberal capitalism exploits viewer attention, shapes profitable patterns of spectatorship, and connects communication to financial speculation.
The message is murder: Substrates of computational capital.
The book examines the misrecognition of “information wants to be free” within screen-mediated contexts. It analyzes how computational capital reshapes representation, finance, identity, and sociality from the mid-twentieth century onward.
The world computer: Derivative conditions of racial capitalism.
This book explores how information, transformed into derivatives surpasses reality in societal wealth and significance.
Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new jim code
This paper explores how automation perpetuates and conceals racial discrimination through the concept of the “New Jim Code,” revealing how neutral technologies can reinforce racial hierarchies and social divisions.
Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means
This collection examines how digital technologies exploit emotions, particularly through social media, exacerbating conflicts related to racism, misogyny, and nationalism.
Black radical feminism and the reclamation of identity
The article explores how black feminism asserts identity and challenges dominant narratives.
New Frontiers of Philanthro‐capitalism: Digital Technologies and Humanitarianism.
This article examines how digital humanitarian technologies facilitate the adoption of private-sector logics in humanitarianism, leading to a form of philanthro-capitalism where capitalist imperatives influence aid practices and institutional strategies.
The rise of the network society
The book “investigates how information technologies shape a new social order termed the “Network Society,” exploring their impacts on economics, politics, culture, and identity within the framework of globalization and informational capitalism.