The Noise in Noise: Uncertainty, Randomness and Control [Hardcover]

This book aims to thoroughly examine noises 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.

Overturning the conventional subordination of ontic randomness to epistemic uncertainty, Miguel Prado Casanova proposes that randomness produces uncertainty as a generative condition for knowing. Noise is form-creating, not just form-destroying. It indexes a randomness in the real that enables cognition. Knowing relays realitys self-making; it harnesses noise but does not tame it. Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut

The Noise in Noise is an incandescent reenactment of the pre-Socratic origin of philosophy and science wherein the concept of noise is systematically and volcanically presented as an archea preindividual field or wellspringfor a much-required contemporary discourse about the entanglements between intelligence and intelligibility, cognizers and recognized worlds, structure and stuff broadly understood. Reza Negarestani, Thlã…