Monday, September 02, 2002

signs Mysterious behavior appearing amid blog circles across the earth prompts careful consideration of this bit of teutonic reflection: A communication does not communicate [mitteilen] the world, it divides [einteilen] it. Like any operation of living or thinking, communication produces a caesura. It says what it says; it does not say what it does not say. It differentiates. If further communications connect [anschlie beta en], systemic boundaries form which stabilize the cut. No operation will find its way back to what was before -- to the unmarked space (Spencer Brown). Proceeding from within the system which thereby operatively reproduces itself, each enactment of such a return would mean another step forward. Niklas Luhmann. 8:46:28 AM

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