Ray Brassier: Noise and Capitalism

Four parts of Ray Brassier's interview to Braham Leven. 


1/ "we can attain an objective perspective on our own subjectivity"


2/ "Integrated global capitalism is constitutively dysfunctional: it works by breaking down. It is fueled by random undecidabilities, excessive inconsistencies, aleatory interruptions, which it continuously reappropriates, axiomatizing empirical contingency. It turns catastrophe into a resource, ruin into an opportunity, harnessing the uncomputible."


3/ "The interesting [part] about noise is its dis-organizing potency: the incompressibility of a signal interfering with the redundancy in the structure of the receiver. Not transduction but schizduction: noise scrambles the capacity for self-organization."


4/ "there can be no ‘aesthetics of noise’, because noise as I understand it would be the destitution of the aesthetic, specifically in its post-Kantian, transcendental register. Noise exacerbates the rift between knowing and feeling by splitting experience, forcing conception against sensation."

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