Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information
The expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought (“observing technologies of observation”) is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences...
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| description | The expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought (“observing technologies of observation”) is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences of “Von Foerster’s conjecture” (a theory of alienation in second-order observation once formulated by Jean-Pierre Dupuy) are used in order to interrogate the depletion of signification in a society that is now conceived of as a computational product. The problem of aesthetics, the essay concludes, becomes then crucial. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b3994e9546cc4d84bb2cd59d40b4129e2025-08-20T03:11:33ZengUniversity of BolognaSociologica1971-88532025-05-0119118519310.6092/issn.1971-8853/2105219426Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of InformationFabian Muniesa0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-3241Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CNRS UMR 9217), Mines Paris - PSLThe expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought (“observing technologies of observation”) is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences of “Von Foerster’s conjecture” (a theory of alienation in second-order observation once formulated by Jean-Pierre Dupuy) are used in order to interrogate the depletion of signification in a society that is now conceived of as a computational product. The problem of aesthetics, the essay concludes, becomes then crucial.https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/21052theorycyberneticsinformationmeaningpsychosis |
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