The Mode of Information

Introduction

Words without Things

A relatively thinly populated country, with well-developed means of communication, has a denser population than a more numerously populated country, with a badly-developed means of communication; and in this sense the Northern States of the American Union, for instance, are more thickly populated than India.
Karl Marx, Capital

The Concept of Postindustrial Society

Bell and the Problem of Rhetoric

Is it not commonplace nowadays to say that the forces of man have already entered into a relation with the forces of information technology and their third-generation machines which together create something other than man, individible 'man-machine' systems? Is this a union with silicon instead of carbon?
From Gille Deleuze, Foucault

Baudrillard and TV Ads

The Language of the Economy

Television made me what I am.
Talking Heads, Television Man

Foucault and Databases

Participatory Surveillance

All information in all places at all times.
From Gutenberg Two

Derrida and Electronic Writing

The Subject of the Computer

Whoever fights mosters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster,. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Lyotard and Computer Science

The Possibilities of Postmodern Politics

I think being in this room with the computers is more mind work. But the longer you wrk with it, the more you will trust it. It is hard to lern to trust it. right now, the men are afraid; they don't trust it, and so there is a lot of stress. they need to learn how to rely on it so they can relax.