Mark Poster

“The database is the new cultural form of the information age, replacing the narrative as the dominant way of organizing experience.”

“The past is not something that is simply 'there' to be discovered, but something that is actively constructed in the present.”

“The mode of information is a new social formation, one structured by electronically mediated communication.”

“The Internet is a space of both liberation and control.”

“In the mode of information, the subject is constituted as an unstable, multiple, and diffuse entity.”

“Power in the information age is exercised not through coercion but through the structuring of possible actions.”

“The individual is not a pre-given entity but a construction that is effected by discourse.”

“Language is no longer a transparent medium of communication but an opaque system that shapes and limits thought.”

“History is not a simple narrative of progress but a discontinuous series of ruptures and transformations.”

“In cyberspace, the distinction between the real and the virtual becomes blurred.”

“Identity is not something we have, but something we perform.”

“New media technologies are not simply tools, but environments that shape our consciousness and our social relations.”

“Foucault's analysis of power/knowledge is crucial for understanding how digital technologies operate as mechanisms of social control.”

“The digital author is not a solitary genius but a node in a network of collaboration and remix.”

“Baudrillard's concept of the simulacrum is essential for understanding the nature of reality in a media-saturated society.”