Two Voices, One Channel

Equivocation in Michel Serres

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ID4386877
AuthorsN Katherine Hayles (0000-0001-5922-1033, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume17
Issue3
Pages3
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSubStance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/3684920
OpenAlexW2324841666
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited1

Perhaps more than any other contemporary critical theorist, Michel Serres is aware of how extensive is the shift now taking place in the ground of representation. In physics its epicenter is the emerging interdisciplinary research front known as the science of chaos; in mathematics, fractal geometry; in literary theory, deconstruction.' Although these projects are all very different, they share the belief that chaos is not simply the opposite of order, but its precursor, partner, and (for deconstruction) supplanter. From this changed perception of the relation between order and disorder flow multiple implications. The most important for Serres's project derives from formal results within information theory that demonstrated noise in a communication channel need not always destructively interfere with the message, but rather could itself become part of the message. To explain how noise could be seen as a positive rather than a negative quantity, I will need to review briefly Claude Shannon's theory of in

Equivocation · Michel foucault · Chaos, Complexity, and Education · Complex Systems and Decision Making

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