Critique of Information
This penetrating book raises questions about how power and resistance operate in contemporary society. Scott Lash argues that critique must take place from within information flows, rather than from the safety of àcademic detachment' and that information is power. The book identifies a central contradiction of the information society, that is, the more intelligent and rational that the information society becomes, the more irrational may be the consequences. Written by one of the most celebrated commentators on power and culture, the book is a major testament on the prospects of intellectual life in an age dominated by seemingly inexhaustible, global flows of information
Specialized.
1 online resource (247 pages).
9781847876522, 1847876528
1058091443
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. 14: Conclusions: Communication, Code and The Crisis of Reproduction Bibliography ; Index
English