The Mode of Information
Poststructuralism and Social Contexts
Published on 23. April 2013
208 pages
978-0-7456-6821-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature ofthe newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. Theflexibility of language which the computer allows makes the writtenword less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes,Poster argues, is a new communication experience, an interactionbetween humankind and a new kind of reality.
Poster discusses the addictive properties of television andarcade video games, as well as the surveillance possibilities whichthe new communication technologies offer the state. Hiswide-ranging analysis incorporates the new language-based theoriesof mathematics, philosophy and literature in Wiener, Derrida andBarthes, among others.
This work is a major new contribution to the debate surroundingthe future of electronically mediated-experiences.
Poster discusses the addictive properties of television andarcade video games, as well as the surveillance possibilities whichthe new communication technologies offer the state. Hiswide-ranging analysis incorporates the new language-based theoriesof mathematics, philosophy and literature in Wiener, Derrida andBarthes, among others.
This work is a major new contribution to the debate surroundingthe future of electronically mediated-experiences.
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Mark Poster is Director of the Film Studies Program and Professor of History at University of California, Irvine.
Content
Introduction: Words Without Things.
1. The Concept of Postindustrial Society.
2. Baudrillard and TV Ads.
3. Foucault and Data Bases.
4. Derrida and Electronic Writing.
5. Lyotard and Computer Science.
Notes.
Index.
1. The Concept of Postindustrial Society.
2. Baudrillard and TV Ads.
3. Foucault and Data Bases.
4. Derrida and Electronic Writing.
5. Lyotard and Computer Science.
Notes.
Index.
