This «Ideology and Technology: Mode of Information as Critical Theory» is an ancient essay I wrote in 1991 that for absolutely no particular reason I converted to HTML and posted in my essays & articles section this morning.

The context was something like this: I was the lone "professional" student in a course studying Rhetoric and Post Modern Ideology. It was the Spring of 1991 and I just wanted to finish, leave, graduate, and get back to work in lovely Myers Corners, NY.

The gist of the paper (no, I didn't even re-read it before posting, probably a dumb move) as I recall was that electronic communication was changing the things people communicate in much the same way that writing did. Furthermore, the marxist notion of "mode of production" didn't necessarily imply a "mode of information" or the creation of an all-seeing entity.

Whatever. It as fun to write but I think it had/has some severe flaws (partly because the weeks leading up to finishing it involved me lying in bed fending off Mono for 1/4 of the semester).

Enjoy, or not. Yet another amazing thing one can do when you keep transferring stuff from one digital format to another.