Cómo combinar la E mayúscula y la I mayúscula? Psicoanalistas y escritores tras el enigma de la doble entropía/How to Combine Capital E and Capital I? Psychoanalysts and Writers in pursuit of double entropy enigma

The argument will begin by discussing the cybernetic turn proposed by Jacques Lacan in the Book 2 of his Seminar and will end by presenting the terms in which two contemporary authors -William Burroughs and Juan Carlos Onetti- dealt with the 'double entropy' enigma. Burroughs suele interrumpir avances herméticos con excursos didácticos: "any image repeated loses charge and that loss is the lack that makes this Hell and keeps us here" (214), y luego: "You see how we were caught in repetition sets?" (ibid.) El plan de Burroughs fue aproximar tanto como fuera posible la escritura literaria a la lógica de la escritura blanda. The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949) de Claude Shannon y Warren Weaver; Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) y The Human Use of Human beings (1950), ambos de Norbert Wiener. 3 En palabras de Shannon: "These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. Mientras más homogénea la distribución probabilística de los símbolos mayor será la libertad de elección, mayor la incertidumbre, y por tanto mayor la cantidad de información involucrada en cada selección de mensaje. 4 En termodinámica 'muerte calórica' es el destino final de la materia: "Inevitably, by the second law, such systems must lapse into the state of totally unorganized, randomly distributed, inconvertible particles, the state of totally bound energy known -appropriately enough- as heat death" (Beniger 37).