The myths of information : technology and postindustrial culture

Myths of the information Society / Jean-Pierre Dupuy; Epistemology of communication / Heinz von Foerster; Information and communication in poly-epistemological systems / Magoroh Maruyama; "Voice" and "print" : master symbols in the history of communication / Eric Leed; Mass media : tools of domination or instruments of emancipation? Aspects of the Frankfurt School's Communications Analysis / Oskar Negt; The instrumentalization of fantasy : fairy tales and the mass media / Jack Zipes; The political economy of social space / Andrew Feenberg; Irony and anarchy : technology and the utopian sensibility / David Hall; The implosion of meaning in the social in the masses / Jean Baudrillard; The hidden dialectic : the avant garde - technology - mass culture / Andreas Huyssen; Art and technology : Alienation or survival? / Mikel Dufrenne; Art and technics : John Cage, electronics and world improvement / Kathllen Woodward; Music, voice, waves / Daniel Charles; Art and technology : the panacea that failed / Jack Burnham; Changing frames of order : cybernetics and the machina mundi / Anthony Wilden; The power of technique and the ethics of non-power / Jacques Ellul

Reúne uma série de ensaios que analisam criticamente as narrativas e ideologias associadas à tecnologia da informação na sociedade pós-industrial. A obra propõe que a crescente ênfase na informação e na comunicação digital não é apenas um avanço técnico, mas também um fenômeno cultural carregado de mitos que moldam a percepção pública e acadêmica sobre o papel da tecnologia na sociedade.