Books by Mark Poster

Mark Poster considers how new media-from TiVO to digital file sharing-affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.

The contributors to this study confront both recent, startling upheavals in international politics and the reorganization of foundations in the humanities and social sciences in order to re-examine Western political thought.

Poster charts the move from social history to new practices of cultural history that are drawing strength from poststructuralist interpretive strategies and raising issues found in feminist and postcolonial discourse. He provides close readings of Lawrence Stone; Francois Furet, Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault.

In this collection of essays and interviews, Mark Poster looks in detail at several aspects of "internet culture", including virtuality and democracy, and the effect of the internet on our idea of the self.