As noted elsewhere (Babe 2009, 161-73), information
is inherently dialectical. Reflection upon the seminal work
of physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, however, reveals
that information is doubly dialectical. The first part of this
article explains and justifies this claim. The second part of
the article catalogues various reductionist (non-dialectical)
stances toward information, and draws out some of their
implications. Confusions, and indeed grievous errors, result
from such incompleteness. Finally, the communication theories
of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan are reviewed
briefly as exemplars in ways of forwarding information’s
double dialectic.
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