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Past, present, and future of the concept of information
2009
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
This text provides an overview of the complex history of the concept of information in the Greek-Latin as well as in the Medieval and Modern traditions. It connects the Latin etymology of the term informatio with the Greek concepts of eidos/idea and morphé and shows how the objective meaning of information ('giving form to something') becomes obsolete in modernity where only the communicational meaning ('telling something (new) to someone') remains. Information theories in the 20th Century are
doi:10.31269/vol7iss2pp125-141
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