In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves … - Niklas Luhmann

By representing themselves as a system [the mass media ] generates boundaries with an inside and an outside that is inaccessible to them. They too reflect [or represent] their outside as public life, so long as specific external relationships, such as to politics or to the advertisers, are not in question.

Whatever we know about society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also of our knowledge of nature.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.