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Break the Law of Information
"Break the Law of Information" treats life, information, or swarming propagation as contagious process rather than bounded organism or stable message.
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Core idea
The basic claim is that control no longer operates only by prohibition or discipline. Viral spread, bacterial sex, and contagion provide a better model for how signals, bodies, and systems mutate across boundaries.
These texts work by tying information transfer to life processes that do not respect stable species, subjects, or enclosures. Virotechnics makes propagation into the central operation.
That matters because the section is trying to surface a picture of thought as contagious pattern rather than settled doctrine. Control becomes inseparable from what leaks, spreads, and mutates.
How to read this text
Read for the language of transmission and infection first. That vocabulary is the shortest route into the page's main claim.
Notice where life and information stop looking separate. That crossover is where the section's most distinctive thinking begins.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Matthew Fuller Break the Law of Information: Notes on Search Engines and Natural Selection//2003 Back Up There is no permanent back-up device for the Internet.
Definition · paragraph 3
You'll get information on holidays coming up first - along with banner adverts for Sandals resorts. Type in 'Africa· and you'll get predominantly wildlife and famine. Self- organization of data is organized on the basis of what ·setr is determined to be in1portant.
Definition · paragraph 1
And it is obvious that anyone looking for traces of overtly racialized political activism on the net is going to want their browser to become infested by a fast-breeding Jamaican virus in the guise of a triple-consciousnessed poet.5 Black Box A search engine is a black box.
Definition · paragraph 1
The tension between making a search engine usable, predictable and 'refinable', and the commercial necessity of maintaining its constituent algorithms and processes as proprietary information, provides one of the key contexts for this project.
Definition · paragraph 3
Go to a search engine of either sort and type in 'Jamaica'. You'll get information on holidays coming up first - along with banner adverts for Sandals resorts. Type in 'Africa· and you'll get predominantly wildlife and famine.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.