I have been meaning to put this one up for some time but due to being a lazy sod I am only getting around to it almost 2 years later then I originally intended and only then because I am procrastinating from getting pubcookies working!
I have always had a lot of respect for Umberto Eco, I believe he is one of the more articulate and interesting of modern intellectuals (for those of you who don't know him, he basically invented the field of semiotics, as well as writing some classy books like Foucaults Pendulum, travels in hyperreality but is probably best known in this modern culture as the author of the name of the rose), so it was with some interest that I read an essay of his books at the openning of the new library of Alexandria. The essay can be found here and is an interesting read though at the time somethings he said didn't sit right with me. It was with no great surprise then when I received a rebuttal of eco's essay from a good friend of mine, Benjamin Waters. I intended on writing my own commentary on both of them at one point, but given my current rate of productivity that won't happen for 5 years or so.
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