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diff --git a/implosion.otx b/implosion.otx index b23de4d..16188bf 100644 --- a/implosion.otx +++ b/implosion.otx @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ and thus which must not itself be implicated in a value judgment. A kind of code, perhaps like the genetic code: it is what it is, it functions as it does; meaning it is something else, coming afterwards in some way, as -in Jacques Monod's \bt{Chance and Necessity}. In this +in Jacques Monod's \booktitle{Chance and Necessity}. In this case, there would simply be no significant relation between the inflation of information and the deflation of meaning. @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ cycle leading to what can be called the "horizon of the event," to the horizon of meaning, beyond which we cannot go. Beyond it, nothing takes place that has meaning for us---but it suffices to exceed this ultimatum of meaning in order that -catastrophe it elf no longer appear as the last, nililistic day of +catastrophe it elf no longer appear as the last, nihilistic day of reckoning, such as it functions in our current collective fantasy. Beyond meaning, there is fascination, which results from @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ of the masses and the media: is it the media that neutralizes meaning and that produces the "unformed" (or informed) mass, or is it the mass that victoriously resists the media by diverting or absorbing all the messages which it produces -without responding to them? Some time ago, in \et{Requiem for +without responding to them? Some time ago, in \essaytitle{Requiem for the Media,} I analyzed (and condemned) the media as the institution of an irreversible model of communication \e{without response.} But today? This absence of response can be |