Language is digital
Alexandre Leupin on Saussure and the digital character of language:
"The technology of the Internet confirms Ferdinand de Saussure's discovery that language, taken on the level of signifiers, is only a series of relative and negative differentials, which can be written minimally as [0,1]: from the outset language was already digital". The computerized virtual world that those two basic elements can create is "a continual prolongation of what we have always termed cosmos, i.e. the linguistic fiction of our perceptions ? In this way, the Internet does not constitute an epistemological break" (Leupin, 2000).
Leupin, Alexandre. 2000. 'The End of Sex', WWW:
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=607&text=1624
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