I attended a seminar with my girlfriend at University of Michigan on language and technology. This particular session concerned Norbert Wiener's book on cybernetics and society, and Vannevar Bush's idea for the memex (which prefigures hypertext in some interesting ways). We talked about noise versus information and what relevance semantics and "meaning" has in communications theory (if any). I spoke up on Derrida's Archive Fever and Kittler's ideas on sound reproduction and sampling rates, remediation, Benjamin on flaneurie, etc. I also learned about a Filipino modernist poet: Anwar Chairil.