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The Austrian scholar Otto Neurath is well known for his contributions to philosophy of science and visual communication, but his work in education is less well-known. This paper outlines the biographical development of Neurath's educational work within his historical context and his broader intellectual development, tracking his move from academic research in economics to his work as an activist and public educator in "Red Vienna" during the interwar period. The paper furthermore examines how his work differs from contemporary views of non-formal education, such as that advanced by Cedefop's 2015 report on non-formal education validation, and outlines how Neurath's approach is still relevant to educators today.

Technics and Dialectics of the Information Society: Japanese Origins of Information Society Theory is a historical and theoretical analysis of the development of Japanese Information Society Theory from the origins of postwar Japanese capitalism to the present day. Making use of the methods of Political Economy and Critical Theory, it examines the contradictions of Japanese capitalism within a global context, and considers how Information Society Theory constituted both a strategy used by the Japanese capitalist class to overcome barriers to accumulation in the crisis of the late 1960s – early 1970s, and an ideology of legitimation, the utopian dimension of which points beyond the theory‟s own limitations to possibilities for a renewal of socialist politics. In its concluding section the thesis briefly considers how Information Society Theory adapted to address the changing circumstances of Japan following the bubble economy of the 1980s, and how it addressed the challenge of global neoliberalism.