The current configuration of the research cluster on Theoretical Problems in Information Studies: Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology is formed by investigations of how the issues nominated in its title benefit from the works of structuralist and post-structuralist theorists such as Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Giles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Ian Hacking, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, and Antonio Negri. Topics currently under investigation include:
- the application of “assemblage theory” to information studies;
- Foucauldian analysis of the semantic web;
- a Deleuzian theory of librarianship;
- the controversy over the concept of "immaterial labour";
- Deleuzian and Foucauldian contributions to information ethics;
- the relation of information technologies to biopolitics and the reinterpretation of "species-being"; and
- theoretical issues in documentation.
The following faculty members have research interests in this area (faculty member's program affiliation indicated in parentheses):
Campbell (LIS) , Dyer-Witheford (LIS/Media Studies), Frohmann (LIS/Media Studies).
[11/27/2008]