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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967485903321

Autore

Lash Scott

Titolo

Critique of information / / Scott Lash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2002

ISBN

9786611240165

9781446225714

1446225712

9781446217283

1446217280

9781281240163

1281240168

9781847876522

1847876528

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 234 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Information society

Information technology - Social aspects

Power (Social sciences)

Communication criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 ReproductionBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Scott Lash believes that any critique of information in contemporary society must take place from within information flows rather than from



the safety of academic detachment.