MEANING MAKING MACHINE - Tecno-Libro

is a study of meaninglessness at the core of meaning making. It contends that some textual strategies typical of humorous and postmodern discourses apparently aiming at meaninglessness are in fact inherent features of all discourse that allow for an exponential production of meaning. In times when information-saturated digital markets strive to thrive by cashing on human attention, the threats of post-truth, fragmentation, spectacularity and stunt emotion are nonetheless confronted with a return to populism and essentialist metanarratives.