Theories of the Information Society, Third Edition - Cryptome

INDEX
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kanban see just-in-time systems
Kant, Immanuel 239
Kashmir 256
Keane, John 200
Kellner, Douglas 127
Kellogg’s 88
Kenya 10
Kepler, Johannes 123
Keynes, John Maynard 55, 65,
68
King, Martin Luther 25
knowledge see information
Kodak 88
Kolko, Joyce 72
Kondratieff 10
Kosovo 197, 198, 219, 220, 256
Kumar, Krishan 33, 45, 53, 59,
86, 171, 271, 272
Kuwait 212, 216
labour: agricultural 39, 40, 43,
47; blue-collar 66; devalued
103; division of 49, 78;
factory 39, 43; flexibility 80;
full employment 3; generic
111, 113, 114; industrial 66;
informational 3, 15, 103, 111,
112, 113–14, 115, 116–18,
119, 122; lower-cost 103;
manufacturing 14, 40, 81;
movement 110; new
international division of 78;
occupational shifts 271;
redundancies 40; segmented
95; service sector 14, 39, 40,
41, 43, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 59;
white-collar 6, 21, 42, 49, 52,
53, 56, 59, 87
laissez-faire 42, 68, 82, 270
language 242–3
Las Vegas 235
Lash, Scott 62, 63, 92–3, 260–1
Lasswell, Harold 190
Latin America 102
Lawrence, D. H. 243
Lawson 189
Leadbeater, Charles 15, 178
leaks 161, 218
Leavis, F. R. and Q. D. 158, 234,
250
leisure 2, 185
Lenin, V. I. 232
Lessig, Lawrence 144, 157, 269
Levi’s 131, 246
liberalisation 173
libraries, public 142, 143, 157,
163, 166, 168, 176–82;
commercialisation 177;
corporate use 180–1; funding
176–82; ICT and 147, 178,
189; Public Libraries and
Museums Act (1964) 176;
reference works 181
Lincoln, Abraham 28;
Gettysburg Address 24–5
Linux 146
Lipietz, Alain 7, 63
Lippmann, Walter 190
Little House on the Prairie 133
Liverpool 60
Lloyd’s 72
lobbyists 161, 192, 193
local responsiveness 89
logos 192, 194
London 73, 75; British Library
176; British Museum 183,
184; Camden 93; City 93;
Greater London Council 65;
Imperial War Museum 184,
238; Islington 93; Madame
Tussaud’s 185; Natural
History Museum 184, 249;
riots 60; Science Museum
184; terrorism 3, 218; Tower
238, 248; Victoria and Albert
Museum 182, 184
London Review of Books, The 34
Lord of the Rings, The (film) 73
Los Angeles 61, 73, 248
Lunt, Peter 201
Lyon, David: categorical
seduction 226; categorical
suspicion 218; problematics
263
Lyotard, Jean-François 228,
231, 233, 251–5, 258–9;
commodification of
information 258–9;
performativity 252, 253, 254,
255, 258–9, 264; phrase
regime 243, 253;
postmodernism 6
McDonald’s 77, 240, 268
McGuigan, Jim 201
Machlup, Fritz 12–13, 14, 27
McLuhan, Marshall 105–6, 107
Macmillan, Harold 67
Madison, James 161–2
Madonna 240
Madrid 218
magazines see press, the
Making a Business of Information
180
Malaysia 68
Mallet, Serge 115
Manchester United 144
Manicheans 210
manual labour see ; generic
manufacturing 50–3; decline of
14, 81
market criteria 266
market research 225
marketing 131, 271; cybernetic
154–5
Marks & Spencer 77
Marlboro 131
Marshall, T. H. 222
Marx, Karl 98, 204
Marxism 40, 63, 89, 91, 99, 100,
103, 119, 120, 121, 124–5,
127, 134, 135, 167, 211, 231,
241, 243, 250, 261; capitalist
accumulation 232; class
struggle 232; collapse of 254;
Marxism-Leninism 156;
structural 98; see also
communism
Maryland, University of 161
mass consumption 66–7
mass production 62, 65–6, 84,
88; decline of 81, 84
Matsushita 71, 270
Mattelart, Armand 125
mechanisation 39
Médecins Sans Frontières 219
media consultants 190
medical electronics 135
medical records 206
Mellor, David 144
Melody, Bill 53
Men in Black (film) 73
Mercury 140
meritocracy 114–15
Merrill Lynch 72
metalanguages 243
metering 209
Mexico 10, 110
MI5 218
Michelangelo 249
Michels, Robert 116
Mickey Mouse 268
microelectronics revolution 2,
55
Microsoft 141, 146, 152
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