Notes for Mark Poster The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context

Key concepts: poststructuralism, structuralism.

Related theorists: Jacques Derrida, Jameson, Gregory Ulmer.

Introduction
Words without Things

A texts and technology book.

Curious that the book responds not with emphasis on electronics but existing critical frameworks for interpreting human speech and writing types of language and communication experiences.

A texts and technology book touching electrification and electronic communications without diving deep into technologies as much as embodying book form traditional scholarly argument complete with basic critical apparatus, ie endnotes and references.

(1) Electronic communications are new language experiences in part by virtue of electrification. But how are they different from ordinary speech and writing? And what is the significance of this difference? This book explores these differences and in particular considers various theoretical perspectives that might be useful for opening new interpretive strategies for critical social theory in relation to these differences.

Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Print.