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Cover -- Critical Theory and Poststructuralism -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theory and the Problem of Context -- 1 The Modern versus the Postmodern -- 2 Sartre' s Concept of the Intellectual -- 3 Foucault and the Problem of Self-Constitution -- 4 Foucault, the Present, and History -- 5 Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece -- 6 Foucault, Poststructuralism, and the Mode of Information -- 7 The Mode of Information -- 8 The Family and the Mode of Information -- Index.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Global Politics and New Media -- 1. Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden -- 2. Postcolonial Theory and Global Media -- 3. The Information Empire -- 4. Citizens, Digital Media, and Globalization -- II. The Culture of the Digital Self -- 5. Identity Theft and Media -- 6. The Aesthetics of Distracting Media -- 7. The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual -- 8. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and Information Machines -- III. Digital Commodities in Everyday Life -- 9. Who Controls Digital Culture? -- 10. Everyday (Virtual) Life -- 11. Consumers, Users, and Digital Commodities -- 12. Future Advertising: Dick's Ubik and the Digital Ad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Hardt and Negri's Empire contains dystopian gestures toward information technology. In this essay I examine these aspects of their important work, without ignoring their more positive understandings of the topic. I hope to sustain three arguments about networked digital information humachines that counter the dystopian thesis: (1) They are an evolving, unavoidable and central aspect of globalization; (2) they contain countless dangers and afford considerable resources for highly dangerous prevailing agglomerations of power; (3) they offer serious points of resistance to those powers and may serve as a base for developing auspicious, decentralized, multicultural global networks. These theses are mutually related, sustainable only together.