Overturning the conventional subordination of ontic randomness to epistemic uncertainty, Miguel Prado Casanova proposes that randomness produces uncertainty as a generative condition for knowing. Noise is form-creating, not just form-destroying. It indexes a randomness in the real that enables cognition. Knowing relays reality’s self-making; it harnesses noise but does not tame it.

Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut

The Noise in Noise is an incandescent reenactment of the pre-Socratic origin of philosophy and science wherein the concept of noise is systematically and volcanically presented as an arche—a preindividual field or wellspring—for a much-required contemporary discourse about the entanglements between intelligence and intelligibility, cognizers and recognized worlds, structure and stuff broadly understood.

Reza Negarestani, The New Centre for Research & Practice

Concerning noise, The Noise in Noise is a book on the need of philosophizing in an age inclined to dismiss it. Prado Casanova’s book whispers a timely lesson in the breadth of literacies—metaphysical, epistemological, cultural and scientific—required of us by the shapes and possibilities of all the human and non-human operations that now compose a planet in metamorphosis, above and below the threshold of human perception.

Iain Hamilton Grant, University of the West of England