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CRITIQUE OF INFORMATION
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| By: |
Scott M. Lash |
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Paperback |
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£63.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0761952691 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780761952695 |
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| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC |
| Pub. date: |
21 January, 2002 |
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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This penetrating book raises questions about how power and resistance operate in contemporary society. Scott Lash argues that critique must take place from within information flows, rather than from the safety of `academic detachment' and that information is power. The book identifies a central contradiction of the information society, that is, the more intelligent and rational that the information society becomes, the more irrational may be the consequences. Written by one of the most celebrated commentators on power and culture, the book is a major testament on the prospects of intellectual life in an age dominated by seemingly inexhaustible, global flows of information. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
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SAGE Publications Inc |
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