Signal-to-noise Ratio
No qual Frederico Kittler resolve todos os problemas do mundo com um poema
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mathematical telecommunication made
the Signal to Noise Ratio
into a throughout manipulable variable.
Together with the operational limits
of the systems of everyday speech,
the limits of poetry and hermeneutics
have been crossed
and media
have been established.
Notwithstanding all consumer marketing,
one can no longer be sure
the addressee of these media
is still called Human.
Ever since its Greek origin, poetry served
to reduce a sonic chaos
into writable and therefore
articulable tones.
Ever since its Romantic origin,
Hermeneutics served to scientifically secure
this reduction of complexity
once more:
by attributing to the addressee a poetic subject
called Author.
This interpretation cleansed the interior
of all noise, which nevertheless
never ceased not to cease
in deliriums and wars.
Ever since noise in the interception of enemy signals
is no longer confronted by means
of the interpretation of
articulated speech or tones,
the burden of subjectivity
has been lifted
from our shoulders.
After all,
automatic Weapons
are subjects
themselves.
https://www.academia.edu/2321975/On_Friedrich_Kittler_s_Signal-Rausch-Abstand_2012_
