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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next up: Susan Fast, Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Her research interests include representations of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, constructions of […]

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In the final installment of Greg Hainge‘s search to answer the question, “What is noise?” we have a response from scholar and author, Kane X. Faucher. ———————————————— Kane X. Faucher: scholar and author of numerous publications including The Infinite Library. In preparation, a book on the metastability and metastasis of information through a Simondon-Deleuze lens, and another on “datapolitik.” Allow me to make some noise, and grasp about for a good handhold that will permit me to speak on the […]

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Despite its ubiquity, the concept of noise is ineffable. Always present in our lives, noise transcends social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries as we do. A teenager on the subway zoning out to music on his headphones could be a noisy annoyance to other passengers. So, then, is there a singular definition for noise, or is its definition as ungraspable as its tangible form? In Noise Matters, out now on Bloomsbury Academic, Greg Hainge attempts to define noise beyond its conception […]

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