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<li class="title"><span><a>All and Nothing: A Digital
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<li class="author"> Martin Burckhardt </li>
<li class="date">2017</li>
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<p>In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with
God, and God was the One. -- <i>All and Nothing</i></p>
<p>In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole
presented the idea of a universe the elements of which
could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and
presence: 0 and 1, all and nothing -- the foundation of
binary code. The Boolean digits 0 and 1 do not designate
a quantity. In the Boolean world, <i>x</i> times <i>x</i>
always equals x; all and nothing meet in the formula <i>x</i>
= <i>x</i><i>n</i>. As everything becomes digitized,
God the clockmaker is replaced by God the programmer.
This book--described by its authors as "a theology for
the digital world" -- explores meaning in a digital age
of infinite replication, in a world that has dissolved
into information and achieved immortality by turning
into a pure sign. </p>
<p><i>All and Nothing</i> compares information that
spreads without restraint to a hydra -- the mythological
monster that grew two heads for every one that was cut
off. Information is thousand-headed and thousand-eyed
because Hydra's tracks cannot be deleted. It shows that
when we sit in front of a screen, we are actually on the
other side, looking at the world as an uncanny reminder
of the nondigitized. It compares our personal data to
our shadows and our souls, envisioning the subconscious
laid out on a digital bier like a corpse. </p>
<p>The digital world, the authors explain, summons forth
fantasies of a chiliastic or apocalyptic nature. The
goal of removing the representative from mathematics has
now been achieved on a greater scale than Boole could
have imagined.</p>
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