Description
Book SynopsisThis book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different “contextures” of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits the capacity of global-scale coordination and the design of robust, adaptable social systems, we need to review the way in which we can harness uncertainty, randomness, and noise.
This philosophical work is informed by many different fields of contemporary science in order to assess and highlight the problems of the metascientific and ideological foundations of diverse projects of prediction and control of uncertainty. This conveys an analysis of how contemporary prediction technologies are dramatically transforming our relationship with the future and with uncertainty in a great number of our social structures.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1. a-history of Noise
Chapter 2. The Riddle of the Sphinx
Chapter 3. Noxiogenesis
Chapter 4. Conjuring Chance: Digital Omens and Platforms of Prediction
Chapter 5. The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-dominant Systems
Chapter 6. Noise and Synthetic Biology: How to Deal with Stochasticity?
Chapter 7. Seize the Means of Complexity: A Critique of Pancomputationalism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
