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R+R = reading and ‘riting
July 13, 2007, 12:12 pm
Filed under: booklists

so here is a series of bookslists that will be occupying my time and (mind)space during the summer:

information theory
1. Claude Shannon, Collected Papers
2. Klaus Krippendorff, Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Data
3. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, The Mathemematical Theory of Communication

methods stuffs
1. Dennis Wrong, The Persistence of the Particular
2. Lazarsfeld, Pasanella, & Rosenberg, Continuities in the Language of Social Research

and…

po-mo!
1. Mark Poster, The Mode of Information
2. Scott Lash, Post Structructuralism and Post-Modernist Sociology
3. Hal Foster, The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Post Modern Culture
4. Stanford Lyman, Postmodernism and a Sociology of the Absurd And Other Essays on the Nouvelle Vague in American Social Science [my, what a long title you have there]
5. Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
6. Stjepan Mestrovic, Durkheim and Postmodern Culture
7. David Dickens and Andrea Fontana, Postmodernism and Social Inquiry
8. Steven Seidman, The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory

there will be more to add here soon….


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mestrovic is my dissertation chair and that is a great book! also any Jean Baudrillard is worth checking out :)

Comment by ryan

You might enjoy reading Grammatical Man by Campbell which is an unsung brilliant book published early on about the implications of information theory.

Comment by Larry Meyerson

Good god child!

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