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The Noise in Noise

Uncertainty, Randomness and Control
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This 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.
Miguel Prado Casanova is a senior lecturer of philosophy in the department of social sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol. His main work resides at the intersection of philosophy, sound art, science and technology.
Introduction 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
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