Fissures -- Dissonances -- Questions -- Visions

Cultural critics and other professional interpreters of semiotic systems pinpoint a fundamental change [Wende] in history within the disparate forms of 'computation' as the apologists prefer to call the symbiosis of communicative technologies and high-speed calculators. The diverse 'discourses of disappearance' of all possible realities and slices of reality that were written and published in the 1980s were based on this common assumption.1 They proclaim a total loss of sensory experience, the complete melding of reality and appearance, of facticity and fictionality, of the real and the illusory. With forceful language and an array of overflowing metaphors not seen for quite some time, they lament the successive loss of language and other semiotic systems as signifying material, as if the creatively organized alphabetic rank and file had to be mustered one last time against the hegemony of both the numerical series of zeroes and ones and the visual. Ultimately, meaning would be completely lost as a relationary quality between signs. In cacotopic visions, the subject, along with its ability to act and its sovereignty in

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  Erik Born•New German Critique•2023

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