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Borges’ “Library of Babel” and the Internet

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Kolkata/Calcutta

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(“On the Internet, ‘rumour and fact become as one”’)

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“network of networks” is creating an overload or surfeit of fact and opinion, a “surabondance de l’information” (“information overkill”)

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M.A., Ph.D.

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distortions

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oversimplifications

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misinformations

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authors invented by Borges

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are completely useless

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Net-sceptics

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signal-to-noise

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also made by its users

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own hands and minds

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or that the texts themselves may end up crushed under a mountain of professional and personal commentary

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Cyberspace contains many mansions

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lists a hundred sites related to “La Biblioteca de Babel” alone

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nothing guarantees the reliability of the data; rumour and fact become as one

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contain every possible combination of letters in every language

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The great library that is the Internet is continually expanding, and that expansion is the work of its ordinary, common readers as much as anyone else

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the massive gains >

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residence on the Internet

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and, at

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least by extension

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