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spellings, grammatical errors, and appropriated keywords and names,
have actually become generative in their mode of signification. But
this generativity has nothing to do with any direct relation between
signifier and signified. It is what Georges Bataille called a “general
economy” of waste, excess, and expenditure, except that this excess
is in fact produced and managed informatically by software bots and
e - mail filters. 50 Linguistic nonsense is often the result, a grammatical
play of subject headings that would make even a dadaist envious: “its
of course grenade Bear” or “It’s such a part of me I assume Everyone
can see it” or “Learn how to get this freedom . . .” Spam - bots are the
heirs of the poetry of Tristan Tzara or Hugo Ball. Spam is an excess of
signification, a signification without sense, precisely the noise that
signifies nothing—except its own networked generativity.