Scott M Lash 
Critique of Information [PDF ebook] 

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.

Cuprins

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

Mc Luhan and Haraway

Technological Forms of Life

Despre autor

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.