Cancer resists the informational code’s order like the masses resist social structure

Evidence

One must take into account that cancerous proliferation is also a silent disobedience of the injunctions of the genetic code. Cancer, if it fits with the logic of a nuclear/computer science vision of human beings, is also its monstrous excrescence and negation, because it leads to total disinformation and to disaggregation. “Revolutionary” pathology of organic abandonment, Richard Pinhas would say, in Fictions (“Notes synoptiques a propos d’un mal mysterieux” [Synoptic notes on a mysterious illness]). Entropic delirium of organisms, resisting the negentropy of informational systems. (It is the same conjunction as that of the masses vis-a-vis structured social formations: the masses are also cancerous metastases outside any social organicity.) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 345

Categorization

• XREF: The masses-as-cancer analogy carries into the later ‘In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities’ and connects to this reader’s interest in the masses as a simulacrum. — connects to: Cancer is the pathological form of the code’s self-redundancy. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 343; Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28

Broader Connections

• Genealogy resists the centralizing power-effects of scientific discourse, not scientific knowledge itself #complicates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 28