FROM MENTAL STATE OF NOISE TO NE - From Mental State of Noise to New Frontiers of Techno Human Cognitio

Anchored by the republication of Steven Sands and John Ratey's influential 1986 article "The concept of noise", this volume explores how noise transcends its traditional definition as unwanted sound or mere signal interference to become a generative force in our increasingly complex, digitized world.

List of contents

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 Brain's 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

About the author

Cécile Malaspina is a programme director at the Collège 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 King's College London, UK. She is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (2018) and principal translator of Gilbert Simondon's 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 and Social Sciences Communications.

Product details

• Authors: Cecile Malaspina
• Assisted by: Cecile Malaspina (Editor), Cécile Malaspina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041130598
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4113059-8
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, The arts, Psychotherapy, algorithms and data structures, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Algorithms & data structures, Information technology: general issues, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Games development & programming, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Games development and programming, Digital Animation, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Digital and Information technology: general topics