Critique of Information [Paperback]

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.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.PART ONE: INFORMATION
Live Zones, Dead Zones
Towards a Global Information Culture
Disorganizations
Unruly Objects
The Consequences of Reflexivity
Media Theory
PART TWO: CRITIQUE
Critique and Sociality
Revisiting the Theory of the Sign
Tradition and the Limits of Difference
Critique of Representation
Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Materialism
PART THREE: CRITIQUE OF INFORMATION
Being after Time
The Disinformed Information Society
Technology and Phenomenl“M