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Critique of Information
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Artikel-Nr:
9781847876522
Veröffentl:
2002
Einband:
WEB PDF
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Scott M Lash
Serie:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable WEB PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 `academic 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.
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.
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
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