
Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Lacan and the Rise of the Sciences of Man
A major theme of the French reception of communication theory was fears over decolonization and imperial decline. thinkers such as Sartre, De Beauvoir, Derrida contended in public and in private that the meaning of decolonization was linked to science. Foucault and Derrida spent sabbaticals or summers on post-colonial territories including Algeria and Tunisia. You had someone like Derrida spending his summers in Paris at the beginning of the Algerian War. We're counting it to his mentor Al-Duzair in Paris. And then a couple years later back in Paris, suggesting in a very profound manner, technology is partially about metaphysics,. It's
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