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| | System One - Dirk Baecker's Journal |
 | | In modern society it takes the place of both the gods and the reality, wrapping these into a semantics of horror and seduction, which is neither religious nor objectivistic but searching for the impossible becoming true, thus bringing the meaning form of modern society to its vanishing point. |
 | | If anything we know about oral society is highly speculative given that nobody has been present at that time, nobody actually wrote protocols of it, and contemporary incarnations of it are already infected with their culture contact with later societies, about the introduction of *writing* we know more. |
 | | Ever since Marshall McLuhan sort of discovered them, we are used to inquire into the media of the dissemination of communication, the most prominent among them being language, writing, and print, painfully singled out in their distinction by comparing them to the modern media of film, television, and the computer. |
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