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Mark S. Poster
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| Born | July 5, 1941 |
| Died | October 10, 2012 (aged 71) |
| Era | 20th / 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Post-Structuralism · Marxism · Post-Marxism · Critical Theory · Media Studies |
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Intellectual History · Mass Media · New Media |
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Mode of information |
Mark Poster (July 5, 1941 – October 10, 2012) was an important American professor and thinker. He taught history and media studies at the UC Irvine university. He helped bring new ideas from France to the U.S. He also studied how modern media works.
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Mark Poster's Early Life
Mark Poster was born in New York City in 1941. He went to college at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. He earned his PhD in history from New York University in 1968. He was interested in many topics. These included European history, how people think, and how media affects us.
Mark Poster's Career and Ideas
Mark Poster was known for studying the ideas of French thinkers. These included Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. He used their ideas to understand new digital media. This included television, databases, and the internet. He looked at how these technologies changed society.
Poster wanted people to think about the internet's power. He believed it could help bring about good political change. But he also knew that not everyone had access to the internet. He also saw how big companies and governments used it.
Poster also helped edit a book series called "Electronic Mediations." These books explored how the internet, virtual reality, and video games affect people. They looked at the human and social sides of new media.
Mark Poster's Death
Mark Poster passed away on October 10, 2012. He died from pneumonia. He was survived by his wife, Annette Schlichter, and his two daughters.
Books by Mark Poster
- The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne (1971)
- Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser (1975)
- Critical Theory of the Family (1978)
- Sartre's Marxism (1982)
- Foucault, Marxism, and History: Mode of Production Versus Mode of Information (1985)
- Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context (1989)
- The Mode of Information: Post-structuralism and Social Contexts (1990)
- The Second Media Age (1995). Chapter 2 available as Postmodern Virtualities
- What's the Matter with the Internet? (Electronic Mediations series) (2001)
- The Information Subject (2001)
- Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines (2006)
- Deleuze and New Technology (2009)
