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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…

“la flânerie” is the art of tactile perception, is letting one’s look glide on the passers-by, the…

The most complete flânerie, and thus the happiest, leads here again to the book, and in the book.

The bricoleur is, on the contrary, at the undistinct (and archaic) border between nature and…

It may seem that Ulysses violates the techniques of the novel beyond all limit, but Finnegans Wake…

ABOUND (v.) “be in great plenty” (14c.), from Old French abonder “to abound, be abundant, come…

SATIETY (n.) From Latin satietatem “sufficiency, fullness, abundance” from satis “enough” from √SA-…

What I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the…

...a frame within a frame within a frame, our bodies and their bodily supports, furnishings…

It is like the increase and decrease of a more or less dense compound along melodic and harmonic…

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none…

There are, then, four ways of exhausting the possible: — form exhaustive series of things … — dry…

Has Passaic replaced Rome as The Eternal City? If certain cities of the world were placed end to…

Each image is a singular variation on the totality of distinct sense—of the sense that does not…