The Mode of Information and the Cultures of the Internet - A Conversation with Mark Poster

(Professor Mark Poster , intellectual historian, social theorist, poststructuralist philosopher, and critical theorist, is one of the world’s leading thinkers on the emerging cultures of information and Internet-based technologies. His numerous books and publications-see bibliography at the end of this article-have received critical acclaim. One morning, not too long ago, I happened to catch him in his office, in the School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine. The rest of the story unfolds below without much editing – Alladi Venkatesh).