Information Method -- Post-structuralism and Social Context

Author: Persian Things
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: The author examines the differences between electronic media language and traditional modes of communication, and argues that this difference profoundly influences how people perceive themselves and reality. As electronic media enter our daily interactions, their linguistic variability triggers the decentralization of meaning and the dissolution of self-awareness. The author develops the concept of information mode from Marx's concept of mode of production and points out that the transformation of late capitalism corresponds to the shift from production mode to information mode.