Theories/Theorists of Information/Communication/Media

Marshall McLuhan - "When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body." McLuhan is credited with coining the term 'global village,' and is a must read for anyone interested in media studies, culture studies and postmodernism.

Friedrich Kittler - Influential German media theorist whose work focuses on materiality and experience of various media technologies, such as his important text Grammophon, Film, Typewriter (Berlin 1986).

Gilles Deleuze/Felix Guattari - A pair of French theorists with a penchant for intriguing neologisms - concepts that seek to uncover the schizophrenia of capitalist society. Important ideas include the rhizome, bodies without organs, and desiring machines.

Geert Lovink - Dutch media theorist, author of Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture, focuses his work on media activism, tactical media, and the relationships between the squatter movement and media relations.

Niklas Luhmann - Controversial German sociologist and social systems theorist.

Paul Virilio - From the site: "'Velocity' is the key word of his thinking, the post-modernity treasure, and the modern society capital. Reality is no longer defined by time and space, but in a virtual world, in which technology allows the existence of the paradox of being everywhere at the same time and being nowhere at all. The loss of the site/city/nation in favour of globalisation implies also the loss of rights and of democracy that is contrary to the immediate and instantaneous nature of information. McLuhan's global village is nothing but a 'World Ghetto'."