Critique of Information
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781847876522
Subjects: Information society; Information technology; Power (Social sciences)
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1: Informationcritique; 2: Technological Forms of Life; 3: Live Zones, Dead Zones: Towards a Global Information Culture; 4: Disorganizations; 5: Unruly Objects: The Consequences of Reflexivity; 6: Media Theory; 7: Critique and Sociality: Revisiting the Theory of the Sign; 8: Tradition and the Limits of Difference; 9: Critique of Representation: Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Materialism; 10: Being After Time; 11: The Disinformed Information Society; 12: Technological Phenomenology; 13: Non-Linear Power: McLuhan and Haraway.