On of the entertaining aspects of the Shannon's theory is that a closed system cannot "explain" itself. This is why the emergence of novel entities (such as WL-JA subsystem) is interesting - it gives a brief hope that there is an outside observer that will tell us what the f*ck is going on (not in the sense of actual events that WL exposes, but about the dynamics of the society.)
Is WL-JA the Outsider, and how long will it be the Outsider? I think yes, and I'd say 2-6 months. Enjoy while it lasts. > As already shown, Assange borrows heavily from the > information sciences - > more specifically, cognitive neuroscience and computer > science. This is > extremely interesting because this leads his philosophy to > resemble certain > contemporary post-structural philosophies – most > specifically, that of the > 20th century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org