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This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporarysociety. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separatespace needed for critical reflection. It argues that there is no longer anoutside to the global flows of communication and that the critique ofinformation must take place within the information itself.The operative unit of the information society is the idea. With the demise ofdepth reflection reflexivity through the idea now operates external to thesubject in its circulation through networks of humans and intelligent machines.It is these ideas that make the critique of information possible. This book isa major testament to the prospects of culture politics and theory in theglobal information society. «
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