Celebrations of Juri Lotman’s 100th anniversary at the 15th World Congress of Semiotics

Repetition of one and the same text by no means suggests, however, that one will obtain no information. Rereading the newspaper makes little sense because we expect to generate new information from the text which comes to us from outside of the text. However, in cases where we listen to one and the same recording repeatedly what changes is not that which is transferred but that which is received.

Juri Lotman