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Ronald E. Day provides a historically informed critical analysis of the concept and politics of information in the twentieth century. Analyzing texts in Europe and the United States, his critical reading method goes beyond traditional historiographical readings of communication and information by engaging specific historical texts in terms of their attempts to construct and reshape history. After laying the groundwork and justifying his method of close reading for this study, Day examines the texts of two pre-World War II documentalists, Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet. Through the work of Otlet and Briet, Day shows how documentation and information were associated with concepts of cultural progress. Day also discusses the social expansion of the conduit metaphor in the works of Warren Weaver and Norbert Wiener. He then shows how the work of contemporary French multimedia theorist Pierre L?vy refracts the earlier philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari through the prism of the capitalist understanding of the “virtual society.” Turning back to the pre-World War II period, Day examines two critics of the information society: Martin Heidegger and Walter B

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Author

Associate Professor Ronald E Day

Publisher

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, C2001.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809385324

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Language Learning

Updated

2026-03-24