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The
abundance of disclaimers on the web go to demonstrate that we still
associate the written word with a presence. If we place our trust in
something we read, and find it to be misleading, we blame those we
believe to be behind the word. But this must be rethought.
The
text on a homepage is not merely a representation of the author, it is
the author. It is the marker of life and presence, and remains
accessible even though the scriptor has left. So just as the content is
empty of anything, signifying other signifiers, as post-structuralist
theory demonstrates, the disclaimer must necessarily also be empty and
blameless. You could just as well write, "I am lying." |