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The Age of Technical Neglect: Silicon Valley and the Venture Mode of Cultural Production
The Age of Technical Neglect: Silicon Valley and the Venture Mode of Cultural Production
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104843
- ISBN
- 9798297600980
- DDC
- 790
- 서명/저자
- The Age of Technical Neglect: Silicon Valley and the Venture Mode of Cultural Production
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 173 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Jackson, Shannon.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The Age of Technical Neglect examines the ethos of the venture capitalist (VC) complex with its ideological grounding in the frameworks of evolutionary economics. It analyzes the advent of the performative impact of this complex by unpacking the logic it uses to generate cultural territories held together by speculation fused with spectacle. In other words, VC produces new varieties of speculation as a form of mass participatory entertainment and legitimates this production by framing it as the "technological" function of society, its historical and economic drive. Alongside its subject- and world-making ambitions, venture capital, despite its historically small role in the wider financial economy takes on an outsized role as vanguard of capital because of the answers it develops to the question of crisis: the legitimation of surplus populations, the deferment of ecological remediation, and the continued commodification of labor.Through ethnographic storytelling of key sites in the public life of Silicon Valley, and of the venture capital cultural complex, and through readings of theorists who have contributed to the narratives the venture capital cultural complex tells, as well theorists who have resisted and complicated these narratives, 'The Age of Neglect' tells a shadow story of the technological "revolution." This story does not only have to do with the accumulation of capital and the control of institutions, but also, and especially, with the conquest of cultural spectacle, and the use of that spectacle to entrain subjects to speculate in venture capitalists' wake, as I explore in the first chapter on "tech subjectivity" on the mode of the speculative carnivalesque. This mode of subjectivation is cemented behaviorally, habitually, through the technical imagination of the inner lives of bodies as frontiers of speculation, as I lay out in the second chapter on "the quantified self" and the techno-financial unconscious. It also manifests in periodic promises of newly "rationalized" systems of perpetually deferred social welfare through the discourse of universal basic income. Finally, it is supported by a grand context in which the substrate of the material world itself is conceptualized as computational at core, and reflective of the principles of venture capitalist speculation, a self-extracting cosmology, and guiding format for global financial investment, as I describe in the fourth chapter on "the technological singularity."In this light, the foundation of the argument this work makes is that Venture Capital - the venture capitalist complex and individual venture capitalists - have come to play a key role in the continued legitimation of an increasingly disorganized financial capitalism in the twenty-first century, by serving as the culture-making arm of finance. Financial speculation is made, by venture capital and its object of speculation, tech, into a popular mode of participatory entertainment, even as it accomplishes the gradual dispossession of its participants.
- 일반주제명
- Performing arts
- 일반주제명
- Communication
- 키워드
- Critical theory
- 키워드
- Political theory
- 키워드
- Silicon valley
- 키워드
- Speculation
- 키워드
- Venture capital
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Performance Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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