I'm still reading this, so I may be getting the wrong end of the stick, but this seems to be conflating Shannon stating that his work is the study of the behavi

I'm still reading this, so I may be getting the wrong end of the stick, but this seems to be conflating Shannon stating that his work is the study of the behaviour of information in the abstract and the notion that information theory is totally disinterested in anything else. This piece just seems a bit dull to my eyes - maybe there's something interesting trying to get out, but currently it seems like it's fumbling around the edges of Shannon's work and trying to find a dichotomy where there fundamentally isn't one. The connection with Jane Austen in particular seems to be completely spurious - let's say that the information of finding this in Austen's work doesn't seem to be very high.