ABSTRACT
Anticipating a fear of information overload, Borges satirizes the modern will to know everything. He conceives a universe in the form of a library. This library contains an infinite number of books inscribed with words randomly combined. The notion of an era of information glut can be countered by another idea: the notion that the era of digital media is accompanied by a step up in the order of magnitude of diversity. Diversity today seems settled as an image of difference that supports a view of human equality. This invocation of a kind of necessary illusion of wonder leads one to question whether Law's strict relationalist interpretation of actor-network theory is accurate. The ways and means of social life have always been vast and today even more so, leading many to the conclusion that in large part social life is either too passive or simply unknowable without a focus upon 'actions that matter' that can be fostered by a discipline.
