Communion is the turning of a living moment into data (bits).  It is basically reducing (losing data) something for public consumption.  Here we see the almost unimaginable event of Evander Holyfield knocking out the heavyweight boxing division’s most awesome and feared opponent Mike Tyson.  It also contains relevance to the idea of pornography whereas we have the conversion of a living experience into bits and bytes, and into smaller data that is easy to consume.  This is simply illustrated by the picture itself where we have a representation of the magnificent event by a single photograph which gives the essential information of the fight – the winner (Holyfield) knocking out the loser (Tyson). 

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