Critique of InformationSAGE, 21.01.2002 - 256 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
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Being After Time | 129 |
The Disinformed Information Society | 141 |
Technological Phenomenology | 156 |
NonLinear Power McLuhan and Haraway | 176 |
Conclusions Communication Code and The Crisis of Reproduction | 203 |
Bibliography | 222 |
Index | 229 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract accumulation aesthetic aporetics aporia becomes Benjamin brand capital chapter communication conceptual art conscience collective critical theory critique of information Dasein dead zones death deconstruction Derrida dialectics différance difference discourse disembedded Disorganizations displaced dualism Durkheim economy ethics ethnomethodology exchange-value experience flows Garfinkel global information Haraway Heidegger Heidegger's human Husserl idea ideology immanent increasingly information age information culture information order information society informationalization intellectual property intersubjectivity involves judgement Kant knowledge Latour Lefebvre Lefebvre's less Levinas linear logic longer machines McLuhan media theory metanarratives mode modern narrative natural attitude networks non-linear notion novel objects ontological operate organizations patent phenomenology play politics postmodern practice presumes rational realm reflective attitude reflexive reflexive modernization relations representational culture reproduction semiotic sense signified social sort space spatial sphere storyteller structures technological culture technological forms technoscience television temporality things tion tradition transcendental Virilio Weber zones
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 133 - All great storytellers have in common the freedom with which they move up and down the rungs of their experience as on a ladder. A ladder extending downward to the interior of the earth and disappearing into the clouds is the image for a collective experience to which even the deepest shock of every individual experience, death, constitutes no impediment or barrier. "And they lived happily ever after,
Seite 132 - This patient process of Nature," Valery continues, "was once imitated by men. Miniatures, ivory carvings, elaborated to the point of greatest perfection, stones that are perfect in polish and engraving, lacquer work or paintings in which a series of thin, transparent layers are placed one on top of the other— all these products of sustained, sacrificing effort are vanishing, and the time is past in which time did not matter. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated.
Seite 132 - Alexandrite," which transports the reader into "that old time when the stones in the womb of the earth and the planets at celestial heights were still concerned with the fate of men, and not today when both in the heavens and beneath the earth everything has grown indifferent to the fates of the sons of men and no voice speaks to them from anywhere, let alone does their bidding. None of the undiscovered planets play any part in horoscopes any more, and there are a lot of new stones, all measured...
Seite 122 - Siena, townspeople and villagers did not continue to experience space in the traditional emotional and religious manner that is to say, by means of the representation of an interplay between good and evil forces at war throughout the world...
Seite 119 - A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms - in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people...
Seite 157 - It is rather a stepping out of "real" life into a temporary sphere of activity with a disposition all of its own.
Seite 25 - In technological forms of life, not just resistance but also power is nonlinear. Power itself is no longer primarily pedagogical or narrative but instead, itself performative. 'Nation' now works less through 'narrative' or 'pedagogy' but through the performativity of information and communication. Power works less through the linearity and the reflective argument of discourse or ideology than through the immediacy of information, of communications. (Lash...
Seite 184 - historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our times are the richest and most faithful daily reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Seite 132 - ... sense and encompasses its varieties. In the first place among these is the one practiced by the storyteller. It starts the web which all stories together form in the end. One ties on to the next, as the great storytellers, particularly the Oriental ones, have always readily shown. In each of them there is a Scheherazade who thinks of a fresh story whenever her tale comes to a stop.