two extremes of [data] redundancy, Basic English and 'Finnegans Wake'... Joyce is alleged to achieve a compression of semantic content
Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Information Theory regards information as only those symbols that are uncertain to the receiver... Shannon made clear that uncertainty is the very commodity of communication
Bell Labs, An Overview of Information Theory

given the present, the future is conditionally independent of the past... a simple random walk is an example
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MarkovChain.html

[the flaneur] walks long and aimlessly through the streets... [in an] anamnestic intoxication [that] often possesses itself of abstract knowledge
Walter Benjamin, Passagenwerk

as soon as a fact is narrated no longer with a view to acting directly on reality, but intransitively... the voice loses its origin, the author enters into [her] own death, writing begins
Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author

to assume that communication is only successful if the receiver accurately reconstructs the sender's message... is to privilege the sender's meaning over [the] receiver's
Lev Manovich, Post-media Aesthetics

sublime was the warning! The author, in fact, was mardred [murdered]
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

petites-morts du signal
[small deaths, orgasms of the signal] - random [dys]encoded pornographics
Graham Budgett 2006