We are very pleased to welcome this week our latest Professor-at-Large,
Mark Poster of University of California at Irvine.
Professor Mark Poster is a distinguished Humanities scholar of European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical Theory; and Media Studies who teaches at the University of California, Irvine in the History Department, the Film Studies Program and the Critical Theory Emphasis. He is also associated with the Department of Information and Computer Science. Some of his publications are: The Second Media Age (Blackwell, 1995) which is version 2.0 of The Mode of Information (Chicago Press, 1990)." Cultural History and Postmodernity appeared with Columbia University Press in 1997, on the relation of poststructuralist theory to the discipline of History. A collection of pieces old and new with a critical introduction by Stanley Aronowitz is published as The Information Subject with G & B Arts International (2001).
He continues his study of the social and cultural theory of electronically mediated information with What's the Matter with the Internet?, published by The University of Minnesota Press (2001). A more detailed account of his
teaching and research can be found on his web page:http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter
During his stay at UWA, Professor Poster will present two public lectures, participate in our Network Media: Code, Culture, Convention symposium, lead a postgraduate seminar, and meet with a range of people and with discipline
groups on campus. Details of these events are available at our website (www.ias.uwa.edu.au)
If you are interested in meeting with him during this time please contact us at the Institute on 6488 1340 or
[email protected].
