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Even when the inventory is large, it remains limited. The bricoleur uses what is at hand because…

The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he…

That is, the surprising and delightful moments when a new idea or invention results from the sudden…

By what then are montage and its embryo -the frame- characterized? By collisions. By the conflict…

This is the opposite of the ‘romantic ruin’. Because the buildings don’t fall into ruin after they…

Within the horizons of chance, effects described by the useful terms serendipity and synergism play…

kaleidoscope : optical device consisting of mirrors that reflect images of bits of coloured … glass…

Finally the journey leads to the city of Tamara. You penetrate it along streets thick with…

They don’t say, ‘What do I have to say? What is worthy of being offered, of being passed on to the…

The information they get when sitting in their rooms in front of their screens is the basis of all…

If the Real is disappearing, it is not because of a lack of it—on the contrary, there is too much…

Beyond the end, beyond all finality, we enter a paradoxical state—the state of too much reality…

Suppose within every book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another…

The Wikipedians consider themselves as the Great Library’s heirs, their mission the gathering of…

Infinite I have just written. I have not interpolated this adjective merely from rhetorical habit.

Then today we have entered into a new form of schizophrenia - with the emergence of an immanent…

Apophenia : the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things.

When data of any sort are placed in storage, they are filed alphabetically or numerically, and…

Who says what? That in a world where everyone thinks they have to express themselves, there is no…

The geometry of Tlön has two somewhat distinct systems, a visual one and a tactile one. The latter…

How much does it compute? How fast? How big is its total information capacity, its memory space?

BIT, noun : a unit of information in a computer that must be either 0 or 1

When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy.

Et sans rien formuler nettement, je comprenais que j’avais trouvé la clef de l’Existence, la clef…

After “information theory” came to be, so did “information overload,” “information glut,”…

Deluge became a common metaphor for people describing information surfeit. There is a sensation of…

Et maintenant, dites-moi, Muses, habitantes de l’Olympe - car vous êtes, vous, des déesses :

Proteus, in Greek mythology, the prophetic old man of the sea and shepherd of the sea’s flocks…

There then is the origin. Noise and nausea, noise and nautical, noise and navy have the same…

noise, noun … [uncountable] information that is not wanted and that can make it difficult for the…

(latin) nausea, ae f. : seasickness, nausea, need to vomit, disgust … (greek) nausea f. :

In the view of Claude Shannon, noise is anything that interferes with the transmission of a signal.

Noise destroys and horrifies. But order and flat repetition are in the vicinity of death. Noise…

Our chance is on the crest. Our living and inventive path follows the fringed, capricious curve…

It is worth noting that if a virus were to attain a state of wholly benign equilibrium with its…

The absence of myth is also a myth: the coldest, the purest, the only true myth

The quarries and the cities are like negative and positive images of a single photograph.

It became a test case for ideas of crowd intelligence: users endlessly debated the reliability—in…