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Informationen zum 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Deals with questions about how power and resistance operate in contemporary society. This title argues that critique must take place from within information flows! rather than from the safety of 'academic detachment' and that information is power. It presents the prospects of intellectual life in an age dominated by global flows of information. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
