Signs and machines : capitalism and the production of subjectivity / by Maurizio Lazzarato ; translated by Joshua David Jordan.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Foreign agentsPublisher: Los Angeles : Semiotext(e), 2014Description: 280 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781584351306 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Capitalism -- Psychological aspects | Subjectivity | Signs and symbols | Economics | EconomicsDDC classification: 330.1'22'019 Summary: Money, the stock market, price differentials, algorithms, and scientific equations and formulas constitute semiotic 'motors' that make capitalism's social and technical machines run, bypassing representation and consciousness to produce social subjections and semiotic enslavements. Moving beyond the dualism of signifier and signified, 'Signs and Machines' shows how signs act as 'sign-operators' that enter directly into material flows and into the functioning of machines.
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Translated from the French.
Money, the stock market, price differentials, algorithms, and scientific equations and formulas constitute semiotic 'motors' that make capitalism's social and technical machines run, bypassing representation and consciousness to produce social subjections and semiotic enslavements. Moving beyond the dualism of signifier and signified, 'Signs and Machines' shows how signs act as 'sign-operators' that enter directly into material flows and into the functioning of machines.
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