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Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and
theoretical practices in the age of media archaeology, philosophy
of technology, and digital humanities as the French thinker Gilbert
Simondon. Simondon's prolific intellectual curiosity led his
philosophical and scientific reflections to traverse a variety of
areas of research, including philosophy, psychology, the beginnings
of cybernetics, and the foundations of religion. For Simondon, the
human/machine distinction is perhaps not a simple dichotomy. There
is much we can learn from our technical objects, and while it has
been said that humans have an alienating rapport with technical
objects, Simondon takes up the task of a true thinker who sees the
potential for humanity to uncover life-affirming modes of technical
objects whereby we can discover potentiality for novel, healthful,
and dis-alienating rapports with them. For Simondon, by way of
studying its genesis, one must grant to the technical object the
same ontological status as that of the aesthetic object or even a
living being. His work thus opens up exciting new entry points into
studying the human's rapport with its continually changing
technical reality. This first complete English-language translation
of Gilbert Simondon's groundbreaking and influential work finally
presents to Anglophone readers one of the pinnacle works of
France's most unique thinkers of technics.
What do we understand 'noise' to be? The term 'noise' no longer
suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise,
and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory,
physics and biology. This trans-disciplinary usage leads to
confusion and complication, and reveals that the question of noise
is a properly philosophical problem. Presenting an analysis of the
rising interest in the notion of noise, this book investigates if
there can be a coherent understanding of what it is, that can be
effectively shared among the natural and human sciences, technology
and the arts. Drawing the philosophical consequences of noise for
the theory of knowledge, Malaspina undertakes a philosophical
revaluation of Shannon and Weaver's theory of 'information
entropy'; this forms the basis upon which to challenge 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. At the heart of Malaspina's argument is the
contestation of the ground upon which we judge and distinguish
noise from information and finally the exploration of its
emancipatory potential.
What do we understand 'noise' to be? The term 'noise' no longer
suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise,
and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory,
physics and biology. This trans-disciplinary usage leads to
confusion and complication, and reveals that the question of noise
is a properly philosophical problem. Presenting an analysis of the
rising interest in the notion of noise, this book investigates if
there can be a coherent understanding of what it is, that can be
effectively shared among the natural and human sciences, technology
and the arts. Drawing the philosophical consequences of noise for
the theory of knowledge, Malaspina undertakes a philosophical
revaluation of Shannon and Weaver's theory of 'information
entropy'; this forms the basis upon which to challenge 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. At the heart of Malaspina's argument is the
contestation of the ground upon which we judge and distinguish
noise from information and finally the exploration of its
emancipatory potential.
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