“The machine may, then, be unbeatable at all kinds of operations, but, where the essence of play is concerned, it is forever disadvantaged-forever out of the game. To have access to that essence, the machine would have had to have invented it, would have had to have been able to invent the very arbitrariness of the rules, which is unimaginable. And it is too late for this. More generally, to be a match for man, the man, the machine would have had to have invented him – and it is too late for that too. In a desperate effort to look like him, or compete with him, the only remaining possibility is accident: an accident of calculation – and making a strategy out of that. Or suicide.”
Baudrillard, Jean. Screened Out. Verso, 2002. 164-65
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The relay of information through the machine is like adaptation or translation. There will always exist a filter between the object and the receptor if they are not from the same language - a detachement from the original essence of the work.
But this can be worked to an advantage, as it encourages new perspectives, other points-of-view.
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