Review of Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s Code: From Information Theory to French Theory (Duke UP 2022)

2023/11/08 by Heckman, Davin

paper · doi:10.7273/7x60-0330

Abstract

Is it possible to discover digital prophecies in thinkers like Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Baudrillard? Heckman has a go at it in this close reading of Dionysius Geoghegan's Code: From Information Theory to French Theory.

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