Estrangement of Meaning in a Wealth of Information

Fabian Muniesa ()
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Fabian Muniesa: CSI i3 - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The expression offered by the editors as a prompt for thought ("observing technologies of observation") is twisted here, briefly and provocatively, in a kind of radical way, intensifying both its informational (cybernetic) connotation and the intuition of a spiraling (psychotic) twirl. Reminiscences of "Von Foerster's conjecture" (a theory of alienation in second-order observation once formulated by Jean-Pierre Dupuy) are used in order to interrogate the depletion of signification in a society that is now conceived of as a computational product. The problem of aesthetics, the essay concludes, becomes then crucial.

Keywords: Theory; Cybernetics; Information; Meaning; Psychosis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Published in Sociologica, 2025, 19 (1), pp.185-193. ⟨10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21052⟩

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DOI: 10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21052

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