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Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and the State in Southeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2008

Tony Day  and
Craig J. Reynolds
Tony Day
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Craig J. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Australian National University
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Abstract

It has been said that post-capitalist society is a ‘knowledge society.’ Certainly the revolution in information technology has made the issue of knowledge production controversial and topical. Southeast Asian societies, while they may not be post-capitalist, have a thirst for knowledge as their capitalist classes become more complex and search for solutions to their problems. These problems of the middle classes are not only commercial, professional, and political, but also personal, psychological, and familial. Cable TV, satellite services, CD-ROM, the Internet, and so forth, sensitize us to the production, formatting, transmission, and reception of knowledge not only in our own age but also in the past. Since early times the state has been both shaped by and involved itself in the processes of knowledge formation and dissemination.

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 1 - 55
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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