CONSTRUCTING INFORMATION SOCIETY:  DISCOURSE, POWER, SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL

З.Серик

CONSTRUCTING INFORMATION SOCIETY: DISCOURSE, POWER, SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL

Authors

З.Серик

Keywords:

Information society, progress, globalization, system, stan-dardization, cybernetics, communication, ICT, virtual reality

Abstract

Levy worries that after a global community is established it must be not disturbed by “radical alterity” - other than the “community” itself. This again brings back the conduit metaphor of Wiener. Levy brings certain institutional discourses to justify the construction of “quasi-objects” and its circulation