In displaying the transformative power or daemonic agency of communications technology, this fable also unfolds the paradoxes of media. The Fly is precisely an allegory of modern media in their equivocation between transportation and transmission—ontologically, between matter and information. The teleporter is a paradoxical device to which organic bodies are offered for material transportation by means of informatic transmission. This is a topic treated in detail in a founding cybernetic document, quite conceivably a direct source for Langelaan’s tale, Norbert Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/clarke/profession/v%201.2006.htmIn displaying the transformative power or daemonic agency of communications technology, this fable also unfolds the paradoxes of media. The...all »In displaying the transformative power or daemonic agency of communications technology, this fable also unfolds the paradoxes of media. The Fly is precisely an allegory of modern media in their equivocation between transportation and transmission—ontologically, between matter and information. The teleporter is a paradoxical device to which organic bodies are offered for material transportation by means of informatic transmission. This is a topic treated in detail in a founding cybernetic document, quite conceivably a direct source for Langelaan’s tale, Norbert Wiener’s The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/clarke/profession/v%201.2006.htm«
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