Mode of Information Poststructuralism and Social Context

Name: Mode of Information Poststructuralism and Social Context
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ISBN: 9780226675954

ISBN-10: 0226675955

ISBN-13: 9780226675954

Edition: 1990

Authors: Mark Poster

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When we make phone calls and use computers, electronic devices mediate how we communicate. In each instance, we exchange symbols and information just as we have since humans began speaking and writing. What, then--besides economy of space and time--differentiates electronic communications from ordinary speech and writing? The difference, Mark Poster argues, is the profound effect electronic mediation exerts on the very way we perceive ourselves and reality. To help decode the linguistic dimensions of our multiple forms of social interaction, he plays upon Marx's theory of the mode of production--the shift to late capitalism has a parallel in the shift from the mode of production to that of…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/21/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Acknowledgments Introduction: Words without Things 1. The Concept of Postindustrial Society: Bell and the Problem of Rhetoric 2. Baudrillard and TV Ads: The Language of the Economy 3. Foucault and Databases: Participatory Surveillance 4. Derrida and Electronic Writing: The Subject of the Computer 5. Lyotard and Computer Science: The Possibilities of Postmodern Politics Notes Names Index