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From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Techno-Human Cognition: Creative Disruptions Across AI, Gaming, Modelling, French Theory, and Politics book cover

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From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Techno-Human Cognition Creative Disruptions Across AI, Gaming, Modelling, French Theory, and Politics

Edited By Cécile Malaspina Copyright 2026
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge
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At the intersection of humanities and science, this book re-examines noise as a fundamental force in shaping contemporary thought and digital culture. 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... Read more

Foreword

Cécile Malaspina

 

Introduction: From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition

Cécile Malaspina

 

1. The Concept of Noise

Steven Sands and John J. Ratey

 

2. Intelligence as a Border Activity Between the Modelled and the Unmodelled

Yagmur Denizhan

 

3. The Intelligence of Player Habits and Reflexivity in Magic: The Gathering Arena Limited Draft

Feng Zhu

 

4. Looking Through the Algorithmic Unconscious: Antimediation and Noise

Luca Possati

 

5. Noisiness, the Stuff of Thought

Sha Xin Wei

 

6. Creativity: Transcending the Cybernetic Mode via the Virtuality of Relevant Noise

J. Augustus Bacigalupi

 

7. The Mental State of Noise: Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia or Should We Stop the Brain’s Noise?

Catherine Malabou

 

8. Pierced Eardrums: Liminal Noise in Post-Semiotic French Thought

Patrick ffrench

 

9. Semantic Noise and Conceptual Stagnation in Natural Language Processing

Sonia de Jager

 

10. Noise Strike: Wakeful Listening at the Limits of Liberal Cognition

Naomi Waltham-Smith

 

11. Topos of Noise

Inigo Wilkins

 

12. Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency

Yuk Hui

 

13. The Shredded Hologram Rose

Rosa Menkman

 

Biography

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.

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