Critique of Information

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Scott Lash - University of Oxford, UK

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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

March 2002 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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.

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PART ONE: INFORMATION

Live Zones, Dead Zones

Towards a Global Information Culture

Disorganizations

Unruly Objects

The Consequences of Reflexivity

Media Theory

PART TWO: CRITIQUE

Critique and Sociality

Revisiting the Theory of the Sign

Tradition and the Limits of Difference

Critique of Representation

Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Materialism

PART THREE: CRITIQUE OF INFORMATION

Being after Time

The Disinformed Information Society

Technology and Phenomenology

Non-Linear Power

McLuhan and Haraway

Technological Forms of Life

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