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Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”

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The History of Social Networks

In today's social networks, we find in practice a mapping of distinctive features governing the genesis, exchange and dynamism of communication. The account of what a social network is even recalls what would be the kind of high water mark of structuralism as a high modern social science. This is not some nice dissolution of the figure of man. It's a prediction of massive, well, decoding, massive kind of political disorder.

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