Overview

In this path-breaking work, Mark Poster highlights the nature of the newly emerging forms of social life, in the current era. The flexibility of language which the computer allows makes the written word less certain and less concrete. The result of these changes, Poster argues, is a new communication experience, an interaction between humankind and a new kind of reality. Poster discusses the addictive properties of television and arcade video games, as well as the surveillance possibilities which the new communication technologies offer the state. His wide-ranging analysis incorporates the new language-based theories of mathematics, philosophy and literature in Wiener, Derrida and Barthes, among others. This work is a major new contribution to the debate surrounding the future of electronically mediated-experiences.

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Author:   Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.255kg
ISBN:  

9780745603278

ISBN 10:   0745603270
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 August 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Words Without Things. 1. The Concept of Postindustrial Society. 2. Baudrillard and TV Ads. 3. Foucault and Data Bases. 4. Derrida and Electronic Writing. 5. Lyotard and Computer Science. Notes. Index.

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Mark Poster is Director of the Film Studies Program and Professor of History at University of California, Irvine.

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