Journal article
Critical systems theory: A political economy of language, thought, and technology
Communication Research, Vol.26(4), pp.482-507
1999
Abstract
An emergent form of political economy, facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICTs), is widely propagated as the apotheosis of unmitigated social, economic, and technological progress. Meanwhile, throughout the world, social degradation and economic inequality are increasing logarithmically. Valued categories of thought are, axiomatically, the basic commodities of the knowledge economy. Language is its means of exchange. This article proposes a sociolinguistic method with which to critically engage the hyperbole of the Information Age. The method is grounded in a systemic social theory that synthesizes aspects of autopoiesis and Marxist political economy. A trade policy statement is analyzed to exemplify the sociolinguistically created aberrations that are today most often construed as social and political determinants.
Details
- Title
- Critical systems theory: A political economy of language, thought, and technology
- Authors
- Philip Graham (Author)
- Publication details
- Communication Research, Vol.26(4), pp.482-507
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Inc.
- Date published
- 1999
- DOI
- 10.1177/009365099026004006
- ISSN
- 0093-6502
- Copyright note
- Graham, Philip, Critical systems theory: A political economy of language, thought, and technology, Communication Research (26:4) pp. 482-507. Copyright © 1999 Sage Publications Inc. The author's accepted version is reproduced here with permission of SAGE Publications. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009365099026004006
- Organisation Unit
- Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450572002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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