Digital codes: The rise and fall of a paradigm
This paper examines the concepts of the digital and the digital age and presents the following reflections on the rise and fall of the prestige of binary digital codes: (1) origins of the digitization of the alphabet with Polybius’s pyrotelegraphic code in Greek antiquity, (2) the invention of the m...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/46174 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/46174 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | digital binary code Polybius C. S. Peirce binario código Polibio binário Políbio |
| Sumario: | This paper examines the concepts of the digital and the digital age and presents the following reflections on the rise and fall of the prestige of binary digital codes: (1) origins of the digitization of the alphabet with Polybius’s pyrotelegraphic code in Greek antiquity, (2) the invention of the maximally economic binary code of the alphabet by Francis Bacon, (3) the binary codes of the 18th century (George Murray, John Gamble), (4) structures of the quasi-digital Morse code, (5) C. S. Peirce’s proposal for a digital telegraph code, (6) the reputation of the digital in the era of semiotic structuralism (Jakobson and Barthes), (7) the place of the digital in the framework of semiotic theories of the symbol (Peirce and Lacan), and (8) the decline of the prestige of digital codes with the post-structuralists (Baudrillard, Massumi, Stiegler). |
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