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An epistemology of noise /

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1350011797

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1350011800

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1350011819

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9781350011793

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9781350011809

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9781350011816

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1350011789

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9781350011786

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An epistemology of noise /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Cecile Malaspina ; foreword by Ray Brassier.

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London :

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Bloomsbury Academic,

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2018.

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©2018

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1 online resource (xv, 234 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Text; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Concepts: Information Entropy, Negentropy, Noise; I How to Draw the Line between Information and Noise; II Entropy as 'Freedom of Choice'; III Information Entropy and Physical Entropy; IV The Idea of 'Potential Information'; V Physical Concepts of Information and Informational Concepts of Physics; VI Information as Process Rather Than Content; VII To Think about Information as a Process of Individuation; VIII Redundancy and Necessity; IX Logic and Freedom of Choice.

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I The Crossroads: Mathematical, Technical, Empirical and Subjective NoiseII Internal Chaos, Terror and Confusion; III The Vicious Whir of Sensations; IV Keat's Negative Capability; V Closure to Noise and the Paradox of the Declining Life; VI The Catastophic Reaction to Noise; VII Anxiety; VIII Order; IX Control; X The Helmsman Metaphor: Kybernetes; XI The Helmsman in Plato's Alcibiades Dialogue; Bibliography; Index.

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X Noise as Spurious UncertaintyXI Negentropy; XII Complexity on the Basis of Noise; XIII The Astigmatism of Intuition; XIV The Path of Despair; Part 2 Empirical Noise; I On the Transduction of the Concept of Noise; II Accidental Information, Predictable Noise; III Ready-Made Information; IV Cosmic Background Radiation; V Noise in the Gap between Narratives; VI Noise in Finance; VII Statistics: The Discipline of the Prince; VIII The Man without Qualities; IX Noise Abatement: The Dawn of Noise; X Noise Pollution; XI Toxic, Viral, Parasitic; Part 3 The 'Mental State of Noise'

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This book presents a philosophical analysis of the rising interest in the notion of 'noise'. The term 'noise' no longer pertains only to aesthetic judgement, for instance of acoustic or visual 'noise', but also to domains as varied as communication theory, physics and biology. This book investigates if there can be a coherent understanding of 'noise' that is effectively shared among the natural-and human sciences, technology and the arts, revealing 'noise' to be a properly philosophical problem. Drawing the philosophical consequences of `noise' for the theory of knowledge, a philosophical revaluation of C. Shannon and W. Weaver's theory of 'information entropy' here serves as a basis upon which to problematize 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. The heart of Malaspina's argument is the contestation of the ground upon which we judge and distinguish noise from information, finally exploring its emancipatory potential.

Title

Epistemology of Noise.

International Standard Book Number

9781350011786

Europa

Entropy-- Philosophy.

Noise-- Psychological aspects.

Christianisierung

Entropy-- Philosophy.

Media studies.

Noise-- Psychological aspects.

Philosophy of science.

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.

Philosophy: logic.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Developmental-- General.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Developmental-- Lifespan Development.

PSYCHOLOGY-- General.

Religion

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Malaspina, Cécile

Brassier, Ray

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20200822174034.0

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