I teach at the University of California, Irvine in the History Department, the Film Studies Program and the Critical Theory Emphasis. I am also associated with the Department of Information and Computer Science. Some of my publications are: The Second Media Age (Blackwell, 1995) which is version 2.0 of The Mode of Information (Chicago Press, 1990). One chapter of this book is available here as "Postmodern Virtualities." Cultural History and Postmodernity appeared with Columbia University Press in 1997, on the relation of poststructuralist theory to the discipline of History. A collection of pieces old and new with a critical introduction by Stanley Aronowitz is forthcoming as The Information Subject with G & B Arts International in May 2000. I continue my study of the social and cultural theory of electronically mediated information with What's the Matter with the Internet to be published by The University of Minnesota Press. This will include an essay, "CyberDemocracy," (also available here), "Theorizing the Virtual: Baudrillard and Derrida," "The Being of Technologies," "Nations, Identity and Global Culture," "Virtual Ethnicity," and other essays.