Information is the enclosure of meaning: Cybernetics, semiotics, and alternative theories of information
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In Brief
Largely framed as an intervention in misunderstandings of Donald MacKay’s accounts of information, Kockelman offers the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce as a better source of the ideas that literary or aesthetics scholars seem to want from MacKay.
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“Information is the enclosure of meaning: Cybernetics, semiotics, and alternative theories of information”
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By: Paul Kockelman
Started: 2026-04-02
Finished: 2026-04-10
Amount read: 13 of 13 pages
Genre: theory, article, and criticism
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Randall, Ryan P. “Information is the enclosure of meaning: Cybernetics, semiotics, and alternative theories of information”. Published April 12, 2026. https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/notes/Reading/Articles/kockelman-information-is-the-enclosure-of-meaning. Accessed on .