An Epistemology of Noise - Couverture rigide

Malaspina, Cecile

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350011789 ISBN 13 : 9781350011786

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents a philosophical analysis of the rising interest in the notion of noise. The term noise no longer pertains only to aesthetic judgement, for instance of acoustic or visual noise, but also to domains as varied as communication theory, physics and biology. This book investigates if there can be a coherent understanding of noise that is effectively shared among the natural-and human sciences, technology and the arts, revealing noise to be a properly philosophical problem. Drawing the philosophical consequences of noise for the theory of knowledge, a philosophical revaluation of C. Shannon and W. Weavers theory of information entropy here serves as a basis upon which to problematize the common idea that noise can be reduced to notions of error, disorder or disorganization. The wider consequences of this analysis relate the technological and scientific aspect of noise with its cultural and psycho-social aspects. The heart of Malaspina's argument is the contestation of the ground upon which we judge and distinguish noise from information, finally exploring its emancipatory potential.

Revue de presse

This is one of the freshest intellectual works I have read in recent years. If you did not previously recognize the philosophical significance of Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Norbert Wiener, you will after reading this book. Shannon's paradoxical claim that information and noise are both forms of entropy is revived by Malaspina and developed with ideas drawn from Gilbert Simondon and Nicholas of Cusa. The result is a challenging and compelling experience for the reader, who will want to study this book multiple times. - --Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, USA

The chapters that form this book are like cuts in a diamond, the precision of which is a thing of beauty. Bringing presuppositions to the fore, little is taken for granted when approaching noise and how to understand it. This is a philosophy of noise that is ultimately freeing and demands to be shared. - --Yve Lomax, Senior Research Tutor in Photography and Fine Art, Royal College of Art, UK

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1350011789
• ISBN 13: 9781350011786
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256