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InSoc.Tickets are available now at Ticketmaster and IsoTank.If you are attending the Philly show, be sure to look your best.Other shows scheduled for January:
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OSCILLATOR is the first new commercial release from INFORMATION SOCIETY in six years.Described by SPIN magazine as "high tech, high concept, and relentlessly high energy," INFORMATION SOCIETY continues to pump out the club jams.Find a problem with the site?Use this form to let the admin know.For other uses, see Information society (disambiguation).An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity.The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding.Information society is seen as the successor to industrial society.Telematic Society, Information Revolution, and network society (Manuel Castells).Development of the information society model
One of the first people to develop the concept of the information society was the economist Fritz Machlup.In 1933 Machlup began studying the effect of patents on research.This book was widely regarded and was eventually translated into Russian and Japanese.The Japanese have also studied the information society Johoka Shakai (Umesao), which means the highest stage of societal evolution seen in analogy to biological evolution.This concept was discussed already in the 1950s and 1960s.Definition
There are various concepts in scientific literature that have been used for discussing information society.This section introduces some of them.Both aspects are central issues of information society theory.Peter Drucker (1969) has argued that there is a transition from an economy based on material goods to one based on knowledge.Porrat uses the total value added by the primary and secondary information sector to the GNP as an indicator for the information economy.Based on such indicators the information society has been defined as a society where more than half of the GNP is produced and more than half of the employees are active in the information economy (Deutsch 1983).What counts is not raw muscle power, or energy, but information.That modern society is increasing its capacity to act upon itself means for Touraine that society is reinvesting ever larger parts of production and so produces and transforms itself.Knowledge would be transformed into a commodity.Lyotard says that postindustrial society makes knowledge accessible to the layman because knowledge and information technologies would diffuse into society and break up Grand Narratives of centralized structures and groups.Similarly to Bell Peter Otto and Philipp Sonntag (1985) say that an information society is a society where the majority of employees work in information jobs, i.Nico Stehr (1994, 2002a, b) says that in the knowledge society a majority of jobs involves working with knowledge.Science would become an immediate productive force, knowledge would no longer be primarily embodied in machines, but already appropriated nature that represents knowledge would be rearranged according to certain designs and programs (Ibid.In recent years the concept of the network society has gained importance in information society theory.For Manuel Castells network logic is besides information, pervasiveness, flexibility, and convergence a central feature of the information technology paradigm (2000a: 69ff).As an historical trend, dominant functions and processes in the Information Age are increasingly organized around networks.For Castells the network society is the result of informationalism, a new technological paradigm.For Van Dijk networks have become the nervous system of society, whereas Castells links the concept of the network society to capitalist transformation, Van Dijk sees it as the logical result of the increasing widening and thickening of networks in nature and society.The major critique of concepts such as information society, knowledge society, network society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, etc.Critics such as Frank Webster argue that these approaches stress discontinuity, as if contemporary society had nothing in common with society as it was 100 or 150 years ago.Such assumptions would have ideological character because they would fit with the view that we can do nothing about change and have to adopt to existing political realities (Webster 2002b: 267).They acknowledge that information society theories stress some important new qualities of society (notably globalization and informatization), but charge that they fail to show that these are attributes of overall capitalist structures.The need to find new strategies for executing corporate and political domination has resulted in a restructuration of capitalism that is characterized by the emergence of transnational, networked spaces in the economic, political, and cultural system and has been mediated by cyberspace as a tool of global coordination and communication.Castells has added to theories of the information society the idea that in contemporary society dominant functions and processes are increasingly organized around networks that constitute the new social morphology of society (Castells 2000: 500).Castells points out that his approach is based on a dialectic of technology and society in which technology embodies society and society uses technology (Castells 2000: 5sqq).Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt argue that contemporary society is an Empire that is characterized by a singular global logic of capitalist domination that is based on immaterial labour.With the concept of immaterial labour Negri and Hardt introduce ideas of information society discourse into their Marxist account of contemporary capitalism.There would be two forms: intellectual labour that produces ideas, symbols, codes, texts, linguistic figures, images, etc.Marxist accounts of the information society have in common that they stress that knowledge, information technologies, and computer networks have played a role in the restructuration and globalization of capitalism and the emergence of a flexible regime of accumulation (David Harvey 1989).Concepts such as knowledge society, information society, network society, informational capitalism, postindustrial society, transnational network capitalism, postmodern society, etc.Information society theory discusses the role of information and information technology in society, the question which key concepts shall be used for characterizing contemporary society, and how to define such concepts.It has become a specific branch of contemporary sociology.What it is
There is currently no universally accepted concept of what exactly can be termed information society and what shall rather not so be termed.Most theoreticians agree that we see a transformation which started somewhere between the 1970s and today and is changing the way societies work fundamentally.Some people, such as Antonio Negri and Newt Gingrich, characterize the information society as one in which people do immaterial labour.Another problem with the idea of the information society is that there is no easily agreed upon definition of the term, which can not only include art, texts, blueprints and scientific theories, but also lies, football results, trivia, random letters, mistakes and so on.Information is not necessarily productive or useful.Considering that metaphors and technologies of information move forward in a reciprocal relationship, we can describe some societies (especially the Japanese society) as an information society because we think of it as such (James Boyle, 1996, 6).Second and Third Nature
As mentioned earlier an information society is the means of getting information from one place to another (Wark, 1997, p22) As technology has become more advanced over time so too has the way we have adapted in sharing this information with each other.Second nature refers a group of experiences that get made over by culture (Wark, 1997, p23).They then get remade into something else that can then take on a new meaning.As a society we transform this process so it becomes something natural to us, i.So, by following a particular pattern created by culture we are able to recognise how we use and move information in different ways.From sharing information via different time zones (such as talking online) to information ending up in a different location (sending a letter overseas) this has all become a habitual process that we as a society take for granted (Wark, 1997, p21).Through the use of these vectors information is able to move and then separate from the initial things that enabled them to move (Wark, 1997, p24).An extension of second nature, third nature is in control of second nature.Related Terms
A number of terms in current use emphasize related but different aspects of the emerging global economic order.The Information Society is, perhaps, the most encompassing in that an economy is a subset of a society.Social networking refers to the process of collaboration on massive, global scales.The Internet Economy focuses on the nature of markets that are enabled by the Internet.Knowledge services and knowledge value put content into an economic context.Knowledge services integrates Knowledge management, within a Knowledge organization, that trades in a Knowledge market.Although seemingly synonymous, each term conveys more than nuances or slightly different views of the same thing.Alternatively, the new economic order will incorporate all of the above plus other attributes that have not yet fully emerged.Caveat: Information society is often used by politicians meaning something like "we all do internet now"; the sociological term information society (or informational society) has some deeper implications about change of societal structure.References
Darin Barney (2003) The Network Society.Manuel Castells (2000) The Rise of the Network Society.The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture.John Bellamy Foster (1998) Virtual Capitalism.John Bellamy Foster (Eds.New York: Monthly Review Press.Die Zukunft der Informationsgesellschaft.Peter Drucker (1969) The Age of Discontinuity.Alvin Toffler (1994) Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age.Tony Fitzpatrick (2002) Critical Theory, Information Society and Surveillance Technologies.Christian Fuchs (2008) Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age.Christian Fuchs (2005) Emanzipation!In: Studies in Political Economy, No.Nicholas Garnham (2004) Information Society Theory as Ideology.The Information Society Reader.Antonio Negri (2005) Multitude.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.David Harvey (1989) The Condition of Postmodernity.Manchester: Manchester University Press.Fritz Machlup (1962) The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.OECD (1981) Information Activities, Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies: Impact on Employment, Growth and Trade.Philipp Sonntag (1985) Wege in die Informationsgesellschaft.Marc Porat (1977) The Information Economy.Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce.In: Ralf Dahrendorf (Ed.Dan Schiller (2000) Digital Capitalism.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Social Informatics: An Information Society for All?In: Baukrowitz, Andrea et al.Nico Stehr (2002a) A World Made of Knowledge.New Knowledge and New Consciousness in the Era of the Knowledge Society", Budapest, January 31st 2002.Jan Van Dijk (2006) The Network Society.Frank Webster (2002a) The Information Society Revisited.Frank Webster (2002b) Theories of the Information Society.Frank Webster (2006) Theories of the Information Society.The origin and development of a concept: the information society.Ohio State law journal which addresses legal aspects related to the information society.European network on social and technical research on the emerging information society.The primer also addresses the challenges arising from the widening digital divide.Other Relevant Books
The Information Society Library: Getting the Best out of Cyberspace, DiploFoundation
Gelbstein, E.This page was last modified 20:02, 6 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Information Society (also known as InSoc) is a U.Kurt Harland), Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006 with Christopher Anton as lead vocalist then with Harland rejoining them in 2007.McCoy (DeForest Kelley), also from Star Trek, saying, "It's worked so far, but we're not out yet!"Information Society Roster
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6.In 1983 they independently released two albums, The InSoc EP and Creatures Of Influence.Their growing success led them from their native Minneapolis to NYC, and the ensuing revenues and contacts, as well as the addition of Amanda Kramer to the lineup, led them to record their proper debut album for Tommy Boy Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.Records Kramer left the band shortly after the second single "Walking Away" was released.Information Society (1988) also had another hit, "Walking Away", and a cover of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love on Me."The disc was one of the few to use CD+G, which included digital graphics on the compact disc version in addition to the music.The audio samples from Star Trek were authorized for use on the album partially thanks to the efforts of Adam Nimoy, fan of the band and son of Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy.Information Society reached gold status after 5 months of its release and would eventually turn platinum.During this time the band released an anonymous single (comprised of 2 tracks from their forthcoming second album) under the name Think Tank.By 1989 Information Society joined the "Club MTV Tour" which also included Paula Abdul, Milli Vanilli, Tone Loc, Was Not Was and Lisa Lisa.Years later, Robb released tracks under the name Think Tank through his record label Hakatak.Hack and Vector
The second release, Hack (1990), wasn't as successful, but had small hits with "Think" and "How Long.""Now That I Have You", was remixed and sent out to DJ's but was never released.The car sported a functioning ranging laser, among other unusual features.MTV declined to play it.The scavenger hunt began with decoding a modem's signal recorded at the end of the audio CD, resulting in a text message from Kurt which pointed the way to a website where the search began.There is also a cover included of Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric?".In 2004, Cleopatra Records released a compilation titled Pure Energy.Despite Cleopatra's crediting of Harland as producer in the liner notes, none of the band's members had anything to do with this release."What's On Your Mind," one by Effcee, and one unattributed mix labeled "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" which attempted to emulate the original Tommy Boy version of the track.Robb himself called the album "an insult to both the band and the fans."Harland, despite being credited as producer in the liner notes, had nothing to do with the release.The group was featured in an episode of VH1's Bands Reunited in November of 2004.Oscillator and Synthesizer
In 2006, it was announced that Paul Robb and James Cassidy had decided to reconvene Information Society, albeit without Kurt Harland's full participation in the recording process.Information Society performed on July 21st at the Freestyle Reunion 2 Concert at Madison Square Garden, NYC with the original lineup of Kurt, Paul and James.Bit Weapon to remix "I Like the Way You Werk It."This new album is something of a throwback to their 1988 self titled album and also returns female vocals to many songs (although not by Amanda Kramer).Information Society Roster
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This is a list of everyone who has ever played with InSoc's live show, in order of appearance.He went on to release solo material under the Think Tank name and was half of Brother Sun Sister Moon who later became known as Luminous.James Cassidy is a professor of soil Science at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.He remains the lead vocalist for Information Society and is also the lead singer of an unrelated group.Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.This was also part of why the band chose this name.Their first album, Information Society, was one of the few CDs that used the CD+G system to display graphics.The song "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" and "Walking Away" were used in a sampler disc bundled with the Sega CD to showcase the console's CD+G capability.Information Society MySpace page
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Information Society is a musical collective which has been recording and performing for over twenty years.Paul Robb, the group went on to release numerous Top 40 hits, notably the No."What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)," as well as "Walking Away," "Think," and "Peace and Love, Inc.".Numerous national and international tours followed; outside the United States, the group is especially popular in Scandinavia, Spain, Japan, and South America."Running" and "What's on Your Mind" have reached No.Interview with Paul Robb on About.SYNTHESIZER, Information Society's latest release on Dancing Ferret Discs, is available now at the INSOC SHOP, iTunes and Amazon.For more info, visit the official Information Society website.Visit the INSOC SHOP for details.Also available are the OSCILLATOR EP and a limited number of the first edition of SYNTHESIZER.Click here for more banners and SYNTHESIZER promo posters.Late Review: Philly Show.They melded together a mix of older songs, some unheard of gems, and the classics.Where would i be without IBM i was good if you guys pay us a visit here in Mexicali and do an aproppiate show YOU OWN US, anyway i expect the dvd too, about the new album i would prefer that Kurt did the vocals, but its a great comeback anyway, Chris Anton did an exelent job especially in Baby just wants, i like the way you werk it and the catchy Burning Bridges, now in these days i have my own band Amalgama where i sing and write the lyrics in spanish, you are an important influence for me thanks for comeback!!Good luck with the rest of your tour!Hi there, thanks for the add.The Philadelphia show was absolutely amazing!Was that german he was singing?And the jumpsuits are back!Thanks for letting us share the stage with you last night!It was totally worth the sleep deprivation.Awesome show last night!Thank you so much for coming to seattle!InSoc, as always, delivers ridiculous fun.And a note to the band: thanks again for being back.Thanks for bringing the music back.Gotta get Synthesizer played on local radio some more.First of all it was good to say hello to ya Kurt just before you ran backstage to get ready.Amazing show last night!When, oh, when will you come back to perform in Los Angeles?The show is so worth it!Seattle tonight, because you deserve it for putting on such a great performance.Enjoy the rest of the shows and hopefully, you do a lot more in the future!Please come back soon!!!Thanks for bringing it in Philly.Just got back from Philly.So sad I am not in Philly tonight:(You need to make a stop to Cincinnati..Heading out on the road to Philly now!See you guys on Saturday in Philly!Please, come to Argentina!!!Really looking forward to it!This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Ships from and sold by Amazon.Want it delivered Thursday, January 10?Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s.FSCommands are received by VBScript in IE."Embedding code will be displayed here."Leonard Nimoy sample, is essentially the great lost Duran Duran single, but the rest of the album is pleasingly all over the place.Abba's tailbone, and the last few tracks slow the tempo way down to an electro crawl.With expert guidance, it's simple!Search in your local area now.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?See all 347 customer reviews...The easiest way to shoot video reviews.It's a crime to put Information Society with the likes of industrial corporate music like Depeche Mode, Camouflage, or Xymox.And since when did DM put dialogue samples from the original Star Trek in their songs?Spock's "pure energy" quote throughout.Some ST samples would've been hilarious here."The airy feel here echoes what the Pet Shop Boys were doing at the time, but the despairing sense of returning to someone over and over because a life spent alone means nothing is felt here."It is useless to resist us" goes another ST sample, before the second single, "Walking Away" comes on.New Order stylings here.The beat isn't as energetic as "What's On Your Mind", but I can see why this hit the charts as well.If I had known the real you.""Over The Sea" as the next single because the energy rivals "What's On Your Mind."Going to take it anymore."The 7:45 "Running" does veer towards DM territory, but its squishy synth beats, high octave keyboards, scratching sounds, and the layered instrumentation of the others make the running time of this tolerable."Make It Funky" is a small whiff of a song containing a computerized voice saying the title, and then "Good God."Still, a memorable sound due to the "Pure Energy" single.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."CD to replace the vinyl I no longer play, and it's like revisiting an old friend after all these years.This is what great dance music in the late 80's was like.Was this review helpful to you?Anyone who hasn't heard of Information Society is to be pitied.Alas, the pitiable are many.Information Society's first album is very worthy of Human League, too.Almost every track has a very strong percussive foundation.Indeed, it is instructive to compare their version of the last with Erasure's of 2 years later).Well worth purchasing, especially 12 years later.Was this review helpful to you?One for your collection
For those people who like classic albums instead of "greatest hits" kind of albums this is one of them.Information Society had a dynamic dance pop album in 1988.Published on August 24, 2005 by Enoc Moreno Jr.New Wave genre circa 1988.After years of playing in small clubs, Kurt Harland (who was known as Kurt Valaquen back then), Jim Cassidy, Paul Robb and, later on, Amanda Kramer, struck a record...Being a huge insoc fan i think they are an excellent band and the best in techno funk.This is an enjoyable album by Information Society, It features many dance songs and club songs.See all 27 customer reviews...Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.Track your recent orders.View or change your orders in Your Account.Get fast quotes from top providers.Object MovedThis object may be found here.February 2008
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