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

MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

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The History of Relationships

Most of these people that I talk about in my book are either having escaped genocides, been refugees, or for example, been inside a silence. Or they lived in the shadow of World War II, Holocaust,. And they had this incredible sense of that existing intellectual and political modes had not risen to the demands...or were not even remotely prepared to deal with what was coming by way of decolonization. So out of that, they adopted a new kind of expert discourse, that of cultural theory, that of structuralism as a way of countering unchecked violence.

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