...Jonathan Beller This fragment is drawn from The Message Is Murder , a work in progress that includes statistically discrepant readings of Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Turing, and Karl Marx, in addition to the engagements with Claude E. Shannon and Alfred Hitchcock present here. These readings...

... the conditions within which a cultural politics of interacting communication networks unfolds. Information Theory Information theory, and in particular Claude E. Shannon’s paper on the mathematical theory of communication, offers some important insights...

... on redundancy, Shannon often referred to Morse code, in which the letter “e” was given the shortest symbol — a single dot — because of its commonness.67 He also referenced Godfrey Dewey, whose 1923 Relativ Frequency of English Speech Sounds was one of the first statistical approaches...

... and complexity theory and to rethink labor, time, and the model of information transmission taken up by Hall.13 Although Hall rightly rejected the unidirectional model of input and output, which Claude Shannon fi rst proposed in the late...

...-­production across a variety of systems, both living and nonliving. In the field of information theory, Claude Shannon challenged the classical understanding of entropy as a measure of disorder by proposing the notion that the presence...

... Institute of Technology , January 4–15 , 1952 . Transcript by Pierce R. S. . In Automata Studies , edited by Shannon Claude E. , 43 – 98 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1956 . Walker Gavin . The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics...

..., “ ‘Setting the Conditions’ for Abu Ghraib: The Prison Nation Abroad,” American Quarterly 57 (September 2005): 973  –  97. 3. Pierre Clastres, Archaeology of Violence, trans. Jeanine Herman (1980; repr., New York: Semiotext(e), 1994), 143. 4. This is always the repressed issue in discussions...