Keeping the Spirit in the Bottle: On Pathological Reduction of Information in Totalitarianism
This article begins with disputing the teleologically charged notion of unstoppable information growth, pointing at the alternation of informational contraction and expansion in open dynamic systems. Narrowing the focus, it turns to the 20th century totalitarian systems as particularly paradoxical i...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-12-01
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Series: | Information |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/1/24 |