Foreword Introduction: From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition 1. The Concept of Noise 2. Intelligence as a Border Activity Between the Modelled and the Unmodelled 3. The Intelligence of Player Habits and Reflexivity in Magic: The Gathering Arena Limited Draft 4. Looking Through the Algorithmic Unconscious: Antimediation and Noise 5. Noisiness, the Stuff of Thought 6. Creativity: Transcending the Cybernetic Mode via the Virtuality of Relevant Noise 7. The Mental State of Noise: Oliver Sacks Musicophilia or Should We Stop the Brains Noise? 8. Pierced Eardrums: Liminal Noise in Post-Semiotic French Thought 9. Semantic Noise and Conceptual Stagnation in Natural Language Processing 10. Noise Strike: Wakeful Listening at the Limits of Liberal Cognition 11. Topos of Noise 12. Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency 13. The Shredded Hologram Rose
C?cile Malaspina is a programme director at the Coll?ge International de Philosophie (Ciph), Paris, France. She is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Arts & Humanities Faculty at Kings College London, UK. She is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (2018) and principal translator of Gilbert Simondons On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (2017). She is a member of the editorial boards of Angelaki: Journal for the Theoretical Humanities, Copy Press, and is guest editor for Nature: Humanities l1