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Title: Mark Poster papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.018
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.2 Linear feet
(4 boxes) and 1.03 GB of electronic records
Date (inclusive): 1967-2009
Abstract: This collection includes the print and electronic teaching and research papers of Mark Poster, Professor of History and Film
& Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Creator:
Poster, Mark
The born digital files are available online.
The collection is partially processed. It may contain restricted materials. Please contact the Department of Special Collections
and Archives in advance to request access.
The digital files are open for research. Researchers must apply to access some files in the Mark Poster Papers and agree follow
the Rules of Use for the Virtual Reading Room. Access may be granted in less than 5 business days.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes the print and electronic teaching and research papers of Mark Poster, Professor of History and Film
& Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. The collection comprises personal papers and electronic records documenting
Poster's career, including teaching materials; research notes; drafts of writings; correspondence, including emails relating
to his association with the Critical Theory Institute at UCI; and audio and video tapes of interviews given.
The born digital files are available for research at
UCISpace @ the Libraries .
Mark Poster was Professor of History and Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and also taught in
the Critical Theory Emphasis. Additionally, he had appointments in the Department of Information and Computer Science and
the Department of Comparative Literature. He authored or edited more than 17 books and 90 articles on European intellectual
history, the social and cultural theory of electronically mediated information, postmodernism, and critical theory, among
other subjects.
His books include
The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne (1971, electronic reprint, 2000),
Existential Marxism in Postwar France: From Sartre to Althusser (1976),
Critical Theory of the Family (1978),
Sartre's Marxism (1979),
Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of Production vs. Mode of Information (1984, 1985),
The Mode of Information (1990),
The Second Media Age (1995),
Cultural History and Postmodernity (1997),
The Information Subject (2001),
What’s the Matter with the Internet? (2001), and
Information, Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines (2006), and
Deleuze and New Technology (2009).
Mark Poster earned his B.S. (1962) in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) in
History from New York University. After two years at Cooper Union (1967-1969), he came to UCI as Assistant Professor in 1969.
Poster died on October 10, 2012.