Information Subject

by Poster,Mark

• ISBN13: 9789057012426
• ISBN10: 9057012421
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster examines theoretical approaches and develops his own position on our information based society. He contends that new communications media disrupt and transfigure the way identities are constituted in cultural exchanges. He looks in detail at several aspects of what might be called "Internet culture", including virtuality and democracy.

Poster advocates an awareness of the Internet and other new forms of communication, calling for a mobilization to ensure accessibility to all and to configure technology into vehicles of open cultural creation. This book explores the rupture and potentiality between the electronic self and the face-to-face self inherent in new forms of technology and media. Aronowitz's contribution takes to task some of Poster's views, and questions certain significant aspects of post-structuralism.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series	vii
ESSAYS
Mark Poster
Words Without Things	1	(24)
Foucault, Poststructuralism, and the Mode of Information	25	(22)
Social Theory and the New Media	47	(24)
Postmodern Virtualities	71	(24)
Cyber Democracy: The Internet and the Public Sphere	95	(22)
Theorizing Virtual Reality: Baudrillard and Derrida	117	(22)
Community, New Media, Posthumanism: An Interview with Mark Poster	139	(8)
Erick Heroux
Communication and the Constitution of the Self: An Interview with Mark Poster, 14.8.1995	147	(8)
Alexander Roesler
Commentary	155
Stanley Aronowitz