There is an attempt to demonstrate that the death "instinct" is a central theme in Freud's life and work, a thesis which is well supported and probably much less disputed than the author implies because Freud himself did not address himself to this in his published writings until 1923, although he had discussed it years earlier. This and other quite plausible interpretations of Freud's thoughts...

This polemic calls for an end to our enchantment with Theory in the IS field. My critique uses Barthes’ structuralism to argue that theories are myths which order, interpret and normalise the world. I address the fundamental question “what is a fact”, drawing on the epistemology of Ludwik Fleck, which deserves more recognition in IS, supplemented by the structuralism of Roland Barthes. A “fact”...