Information: Notes Toward a Critical History

have their histories and their longings, which leave their hieroglyphic marks everywhere. The echoes of past ectasies, and despairs, resound in human talk, though they are usually muffled and we usually oblivious. Such a conception of language is often resisted because it seems to conjure the specter of animism, something that modems, being more comfortable in the sunlight than the moonlight, have worked so dilligently to banish. It seems to make language into a netherworld populated by the ghosts of departed ancestors; it seems to make us into beings possessed by demons or angels instead of ourselves. It violates our sense of being the masters of language and of language as a tool, a symbolic system for transmitting information. It is the information that matters,

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