It’s long been said that we live in an information age. If this information is to be believed, then I must confess – I’m disappointed. Of course, as a transnational public sphere, the internet has produced innumerable benefits to the way in which society communicates and receives information. Yet, tethered by little restraint, ethics or transparency, the endless communicative flows crossing these digital plains at any one moment has subsequently degraded the quality, character and authority of what we constitute as ‘information’.

Explaining the uneven and combined development of the world.

Recently, I was skimming through Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s waste books when I stumbled upon an interesting entry: