Chapter 1 Words without things, Mark Poster; Chapter 2 Foucault, poststructuralism, and the mode of information, Mark Poster; Chapter 3 Social theory and the new media, Mark Poster; Chapter 4 Postmodern virtualities, Mark Poster; Chapter 5 Cyber democracy: the internet and the public sphere, Mark Poster; Chapter 6 Theorizing virtual reality: baudrillard and derrida, Mark Poster; Chapter 7 Community, new media, posthumanism: an interview with mark poster; Chapter 8 Communication and the constitution of the self: an interview with mark poster, 14.8.1995; Commentary, Stanley Aronowitz;
Mark Poster, University of California at Irvine, USA and Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA