“In a co-authored monograph, media theorist Alexander Galloway retells
the story of how Hermes kills the hundred-eyed, all-vigilant Argus: the
arch-messenger just keeps talking and talking on end, about the
invention of the reed pipe, and slowly the giant’s eyes close out of
fatigue. “Argus,” as Galloway has it, “was bored to death by the most
boring thing of all, tales about technology.”[1]”