Noisiness, the Stuff of Thought

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Abstract

Michel Serres said that history is the propagation of effects, saying in his conversations with Bruno Latour, “we experience time as much in our inner senses as externally in nature, as much as le temps of history as le temps of weather,” characterized more by turbulence than by Euclidean geometry. Setting out from Serres’ nautical meditation on noise, guided by Giuseppe Longo’s and interlocutors’ characterization of the random as a function of theory and measure, one can distinguish the random from the non-schematizable noisy. How do we think given the noisy dynamics of the world? Bernard Stiegler’s epiphylogenetic technologies and Gilbert Simondon’s transindividuating technics prepares considering thought as collective as well as individual activity. After sallies into algorithmic technology to establish its limits, we consider how epiphylogenetic thought develops in the presence of indeterminacy. We return to noise not as a simple veil between the discernible and indiscernible, but as a constitutive aspect of the complexification and enrichment of developmental ontologies, an enrichment co-articulated by epiphylogenetic imagination and technics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)66-77
Number of pages12
JournalAngelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Keywords

  • and extended)
  • art as thought
  • collective thought
  • differential operators
  • embedded
  • enactive
  • epiphylogenesis
  • noise; pattern recognition; category; 4E experience (embodied
  • textural ontogenetic process

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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