Message posted on 26/11/2018
Reminder: "Thinking with Noise" | Cecile Malaspina @ Goldsmiths, 5th Dec 2018, 4.30-6.30pm
*** with apologies for cross-posting*** <br> <br> <br>5th December 2018 | 4.30-6.30pm <br>Margaret Macmillan Building (MMB) 220 | <br>Goldsmiths, University of London <br> <br>Part of the Pluralistic Variations Series <br>Organised by Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology) <br> <br>EVERYONE'S WELCOME! <br> <br>Cecile Malaspina (Paris 7 & Nanterre) <br>THINKING WITH NOISE <br> <br>Noise immediately evokes sound. Yet when “noise” crops up in finance, it is not the din of the trading floor we mean, nor does “noise” in population genetics refer to a zoological cacophony. Even sound has been transformed by the statistical attention to “noise” as stochastic fluctuations, non-deterministic or random variations. Notwithstanding the drifting of knowledge into archipelagos of specialization, “noise” has become an eminently shareable concept. This alone says something about knowledge itself, about the relation between different fields of knowledge in the “information era”. This is also where it is worth being sensitive to traces of the intuitive notion of “noise” in scientific conceptualizations, insofar as they elicit a judgement: be it an aesthetic one, regarding worthiness of attention, or a quasi-legal one, i.e. regarding the legitimacy of a theoretical model. What risks going unnoticed is the way in which the idea of “noise” appears to move seamlessly from an epistemological question, pertaining to how we know, to a wider problem of normativity, pertaining to the exercise of control through the norm (statistical or moral), the rule (as method or convention) and the law (governing physics or social bodies). The opportunity that must not be missed in the epistemological momentum towards “noise”, is the move from the classical elimination of “noise” to thinking with “noise”. <br> <br>Cecile Malaspina is the author of An Epistemology of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018) and translator of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (with the collaboration of John Rogove, Univocal / University of Minnesota Press, 2017). She is commissioning editor for Copy Press and is affiliated with the CNRS Paris 7 (Laboratoire SPHERE) and Universite Paris Nanterre. <br> <br> <br>Facebook Event <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>Dr. Martin Savransky <br>Lecturer | Department of Sociology <br>Director, Unit of Play (UoP) <br>Convenor, MA Critical & Creative Analysis <br>Goldsmiths, University of London <br>London SE14 6NW <br> <br>m.savransky@gold.ac.uk <br>Goldsmiths Staff Website <br>Academia.edu Website <br> <br>Unit of Play <br> <br>The Adventure of Relevance | Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures | Isabelle Stengers and The Dramatization of Philosophy <br> <br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of Malaspinaposter.pdf] <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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