Critique of Information

by Scott Lash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761952691
• ISBN13: 9780761952695
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"