Critique of Information
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Critique of Information

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Critique of Information

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1: Informationcritique
  5. 2: Technological Forms of Life
  6. 3: Live Zones, Dead Zones: Towards a Global Information Culture
  7. 4: Disorganizations
  8. 5: Unruly Objects: The Consequences of Reflexivity
  9. 6: Media Theory
  10. 7: Critique and Sociality: Revisiting the Theory of the Sign
  11. 8: Tradition and the Limits of Difference
  12. 9: Critique of Representation: Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Materialism
  13. 10: Being After Time
  14. 11: The Disinformed Information Society
  15. 12: Technological Phenomenology
  16. 13: Non-Linear Power: McLuhan and Haraway
  17. 14: Conclusions: Communication, Code and The Crisis of Reproduction
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index