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9780761952695

Critique of Information

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761952695

  • ISBN10:

    0761952691

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-03-28
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

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Summary

This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for critical reflection. It argues that there is no longer an 'outside' to the global flows of communication and that the critique of information must take place within the information itself. The operative unit of the information society is the idea. With the demise of depth reflection, reflexivity through the idea now operates external to the subject in its circulation through networks of humans and intelligent machines. It is these ideas that make the critique of information possible. This book is a major testament to the prospects of culture, politics and theory in the global information society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction vii
Informationcritique
1(12)
Information 13(66)
Technological Forms of Life
13(13)
Live Zones, Dead Zones: Towards a Global Information Culture
26(13)
Disorganizations
39(10)
Unruly Objects: The Consequences of Reflexivity
49(16)
Media Theory
65(14)
Critique 79(62)
Critique and Sociality: Revisiting the Theory of the Sign
79(14)
Tradition and the Limits of Difference
93(21)
Critique of Representation: Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Materialism
114(15)
Being after Time
129(12)
Critique of Information 141(81)
The Disinformed Information Society
141(15)
Technological Phenomenology
156(20)
Non-Linear Power: McLuhan and Haraway
176(27)
Conclusions: Communications, Code and the Crisis of Reproduction
203(19)
Bibliography 222(7)
Index 229

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