Two extremes of [data] redundancy... Basic English and 'Finnegans Wake'. [Author James] Joyce... is alleged to achieve a compression of semantic content. Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Information Theory regards information as only those symbols that are uncertain to the receiver... [Claude] Shannon made clear that uncertainty is the very commodity of communication. http://www.lucent.com/minds/infotheory/what1.html

given the present, the future is conditionally independent of the past... a simple random walk is an example [of a Markov chain]... [one] random walk phenomenon [is] known as Brownian motion. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MarkovChain.html [../RandomWalk.html]

[the flaneur] walks long and aimlessly through the streets... [in an] anamnestic intoxication... [that] often possesses itself of abstract knowledge. Walter Benjamin, Passagenwerk

As soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting directly on reality but intransitively... the voice loses its origin, the author enters into [her] own death, writing begins. Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author

to assume that communication is only successful if the receiver accurately reconstructs the sender’s message is to privilege the sender’s meaning over [the] receiver’s... Lev Manovich, Post-media Aesthetics

Sublime was the warning! The author, in fact, was mardred [murdered]. James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

petites-morts du signal [small deaths of the signal]

sender: usenet newsgroup poster + hardware + software - message: random [dys]encoded pornographics - receiver: usenet newsgroup reader hardware + software

metadata: information theory; signal; noise; entropy... [art] critical theory; automatism; abstraction; authorship; scopophilia; usership; interactivity...