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13~hershenevich observes that , " [ i ] n a long chain
of images, where one is linked to the other like clockwork
gears, there is only one criterion for success:
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expressiveness, based on exceptional novelty" because, "[als
soon as an image gets old, trite, it [starts] slipping like
an old gear, irnpairing the work of the clockwork mechanism"
(151). When Marinetti daims that "every noun is a[ ...] belt
set in motion by the vert (1991:107), he implies that
writing coincides with a filmic device, whose program
exposes language for the artificial cognition that it is.
''~aulson observes that " [ t lhe parallel equations
of Boltzmann and Shannon" analyze such atomic states of
uncertainty in terms of negentropic probability (56).
Nomadic science reveals that a thermionic flow of heat and a
cybernetic flow of data can be explained by the same
formula. For Boltzmann: S = -k E pi log p i.
For Shannon:
H = -k B pi logZ pi.
For the 'pataphysician, the parallelism
between these two equations might imply that the laws of the
physical-universe correlate the dissipativeness of a system
with the informativeness of a system.