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Cloud Time
Rob Coley
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Description for Cloud Time
Paperback. This book maps capitalisms mobilization of cloud computing in its bid to archive and enclose the future. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
The 'Cloud', hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate immanently and intensively, organizing our affective political involvements, instituting new modes of enclosure, and, crucially, colonizing the future through a new temporality of control. The virtual is often claimed as a realm of invention through which capitalism might be cracked, but it is precisely here that power now thrives. Cloud time, in service of security and profit, assumes all is knowable. We bear witness to the collapse of both past and ... Read more
The 'Cloud', hailed as a new digital commons, a utopia of collaborative expression and constant connection, actually constitutes a strategy of vitalist post-hegemonic power, which moves to dominate immanently and intensively, organizing our affective political involvements, instituting new modes of enclosure, and, crucially, colonizing the future through a new temporality of control. The virtual is often claimed as a realm of invention through which capitalism might be cracked, but it is precisely here that power now thrives. Cloud time, in service of security and profit, assumes all is knowable. We bear witness to the collapse of both past and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
127
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
132g
Number of Pages
127
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780990958
SKU
V9781780990958
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About Rob Coley
Rob Coley is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Lincoln, researching the power and politics of contemporary visuality. Dean Lockwood, awarded a PhD in Sociology at York in 1996, is a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the School of Media at the University of Lincoln.
Reviews for Cloud Time
It's not only your head that is in the Cloud, but your whole body in its desires, actions, reactions, hiccups and errors too. Coley and Lockwood show in their strong theoretical take on cloudy media cultures that the more invisible control becomes, the more we need to develop fresh theoretical tools to open it up. Cloud Time offers a much-needed ... Read more