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The Parasite’s Gift: Michel Serres’s Forgotten Truth That Noise Is the Source of Meaning
We live in a world obsessed with clarity. From noise-canceling headphones to algorithms designed for frictionless communication, our modern project is the relentless purification of the signal. We strive to eliminate static, interruption, and ambiguity, believing that perfect transmission equals perfect understanding. But what if this entire endeavor is a profound mistake? The French philosopher Michel Serres offers a radical and unsettling alternative: that noise is not the enemy of communication, but its very condition of possibility. He argues that the interruption, the parasite, the…
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