Critique of Information (Theory, Culture and Society Series)

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Critique of Information (Theory, Culture and Society Series)

ISBN: 9780761952688

作者: Scott M Lash

出版社: SAGE Publications

出版年: 2002-03-28

页数: 256

定价: USD 145.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.

作者简介

斯各特?拉什（Scott Lash），伦敦大学哥尔斯密学院社会学教授，文化研究中心主任。他的著作有《组织化资本主义的终结》（与厄里合作，l987）、《后现代主义社会学》（1990）、《现代性和身份》（合编，1992）、《全球性现代性》（合编，1995）、《时间与价值》（合编，l998）、《另一种现代性，另一种理性》（1999）等。