An Epistemology of Noise (Hardcover)

Foreword by Ray Brassier 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 X Noise as Spurious Uncertainty XI 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' I The Crossroads: Mathematical, Technical, Empirical and Subjective Noise II 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