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During this path-breaking paintings, Mark Poster highlights the character of the newly rising different types of social existence, within the present period. the flexibleness of language which the pc permits makes the written observe much less sure and not more concrete. the results of those alterations, Poster argues, is a brand new conversation event, an interplay among humankind and a brand new form of truth. Poster discusses the addictive homes of Read more...
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As an intellectual historian I trace the problem back to its origins. 13 In this theoretical context, the social scientist is constituted as a knowing subject separate from his or her object of study, one who enunciates univocal words to define an objective social field distinct from himself or herself. The discourse of social theory is structured as a direct representation of the mind of the social theorist. Within the constituted social field, by contrast, language is presumed to exist at a different level from theory but one that remains univocal.
Many other examples could be given of information systems which produce simulacra. Electronic mediation complicates the transmission of language and subverts the subject who would limit language to the role of a simple medium of expression. In the case of the audiophile, the effort to achieve an exact musical reproduction quickly goes beyond the listener’s intention. Striving to extract more and more information from the grooves of the vinyl disk, the audiophile soon finds himor herself hearing more than the listener at the original performance.
The danger that must be avoided in Marx’s formulation is progressivism. I prefer to consider the present age as simply an unavoidable context of discursive totalization, not as an ontological realization of a process of development. ” As Marx notes in The German Ideology, the test of any theory is determined in empirical studies informed by its concepts. In this spirit, my book is to be taken above all as an attempt to suggest the value of poststructuralist theory to the history of communications, to promote a new direction of research in that field, and therefore to be considered one theme in what Foucault called the history of the present.