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Johnathan Bi — Girard, Desire, and Modernity (EP.116)
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Information Theory
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Information theory basically says that information is something that's novel. He always quipped that a political speech contains zero information, whereas a new poem or a new piece of art or new music contains huge amounts of information. And he uses as his ample the microscopic world. Before we invented microscopes, we were tuned out because we had to be. We didn't know it was there. But when we invented that microscope, we got tuned in. In much the same way that when you see a new scientific theory, a new literary style. James joyce comes to mind, david baum with the hidden variables on the science new art. The impressionists, the existing authorities always react very badly
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