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is a kind of risk-taking. To be full of life is to take risks and thereby to communicate something of life.

If I ever have occasion to write out my last words in blood, I'll write this: 'Everything I lived, said, or wrote-- everything I loved-- I considered communication. How could I live my life otherwise' Living this recluse's life, speaking in a desert of isolated readers, accepting the buoyant touch of writing! My accomplishment, its sum total, is to have taken risks and to have my sentences fall like the victims of war now lying in the fields.' I want people to laugh, shrug their shoulders, and say, 'He's having fun at our expense, he's alive.' True, I live on, even now am full of life, though I declare, 'If you find me reluctant to take risks in this book, throw it away... if on the other hand, when you read me you find nothing to risk yourself, then listen: Throughout your life up until your death, your reading will only corrupt you . . . and you'll stink with corruption.' (Bataille 'on nietzsche 21)

is a process of sharing experiences till it becomes a common possession.

Dewey defines communication as a process of sharing experiences till it becomes a common possession.' (net)

is a ritual sacrifice, and a shared crime whereby common discourse is destroyed for the sake of a more intense form of communication. Communication is cryptically referred to in terms of 'dying and coming back'.

Dying and coming back was what Bataille thought 'communication' is about. A ritual sacrifice where the crime is shared... outer violence turned inward, destroying the limits of being. Sacrificing discourse for a more intense form of communication was something Nietzsche seemed to have been able to do effortlessly. Bataille was less fortunate: 'The neurotic has only a single way out AND MUST RISK HIMSELF.' (Lotringer in Bataille on nietzsche 3 .doc)

is about becoming familiarized with a certain environment while simultaneously influencing aspects of it.

This idea suggests that the goal of human communication is to become familiarized with a certain environment while simultaneously influencing aspects of it. With this, Wiener wrote:

is about being effective, not always about being proper.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper. Bo Bennett

The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes

is an autonomous sphere and something humans or agents are not really capable of doing. After saying something, what happens next is the behavior of communication. It is a network, and one can't really force a network to react or respond.

Systems theory and network analysis dispense with 'actor' and 'agency' as basic sociological concepts. For Luhmann, persons are systems whose autopoiesis is accomplished by consciousness. This means they produce mental states from other mental states. In contrast, social systems use communication in their own autopoiesis. while there would be no communication withotu minds, communication does not 'follow' from minds and cannot be 'reduced to it, as if minds 'entailed' commuication. Persons cannot really communicate... they can say or write somehting, but what happens next, if anything, is decided by the behavior of communication, not by mental states and consciousness. For a mind, it is quite impossible to force networks of communication to react or respond to it. an author's works are read and understood in ways the author did not intend or anticipate. if these works are not being read at all, ther is not much the author can do about it.' (Fuchs 'beyond agency').

is an illusion of a purified language free from the ambiguities . On the contrary, it is the experience of lived language which gives birth.

Communication on this picture is simply an illusion, since words can never thereby contribute anything new to thought, whereas the experience of language gives birth to a 'mute faith in the secret virtues of communication' (8)'

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