ABSTRACT
This chapter raises some “meta—” questions about the concept of “information” itself Where “information” is presumed to be relevant to the workings of the human world, there is the question of the communicability of whatever is described as “information.” This places what is presumed to be informative—whether natural or human-made—in a system which is itself nondecomposable. In a nondecomposable (human communication) system, what we call “information” cannot be described apart from that system—is a function of that system, and cannot be empirically independent of it. The “problematics” that this flaw in our concept of “information” leave in its wake include those of description, of order, of limits, of power, of meaning, and of “communication.” While such systems may appear to be decomposable (reducible) to an observer (the “psychologist’s” or “third-person fallacy”), there is no “information” which is infinitely transportable. Whether something can be “information” or not, and what kind of “information” it is construed to be, is a function of the irreducible system—the story— which the humans involved imagine themselves to be in. All “information” is therefore “deconstructed” information.
