Borges - Papers: "Library of Babel on the Internet" - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Feb 07
  

  Mark Marino

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  • least by extension
  • and, at
  • residence on the Internet
  •  the massive gains >
  • The great library that is the Internet is continually expanding, and that expansion is the work of its ordinary, common readers as much as anyone else
  • contain every possible combination of letters in every language
  • nothing guarantees the reliability of the data; rumour and fact become as one
  • lists a hundred sites related to “La Biblioteca de Babel” alone
  • Cyberspace contains many mansions
  • or that the texts themselves may end up crushed under a mountain of professional and personal commentary
  • own hands and minds
  • also made by its users
  • signal-to-noise
  • Net-sceptics
  • are completely useless
  • authors invented by Borges
  • misinformations
  • oversimplifications
  • distortions
  • M.A., Ph.D.
  • “network of networks” is creating an overload or surfeit of fact and opinion, a “surabondance de l’information” (“information overkill”)
  • (“On the Internet, ‘rumour and fact become as one”’)
  • Kolkata/Calcutta
  • Borges’ “Library of Babel” and the Internet

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