Greg Hainge is Reader in French and Head of the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and has published widely on cinema, music, critical theory and French literature.

The originality of Hainge’s work is in its philosophical method...He systematically unpacks noise to reveal its complexity, and its materiality in the virtual and actual worlds. Traversing many rich and wide-ranging topics, his book moves beyond the potential traps of falling into truisms, offering a highly nuanced reading of noise in all its materializations.

• IntroductionSECTION 1.Chapter 1. The (not so) Noisy Elephants in the Room. Chapter 2. Noisea.Chapter 3. Noise, Horror, Death. SECTION 2. Chapter 4. On the Difficulties of Attending to Noise. Chapter 5. On the Difficulties of Listening to Noise. SECTION 3.Chapter 6. On Noise and Film. Planet, Rabbit, Lynch. Chapter 7. On Noise and Photography. Forest, Fuzz, Ruff. Chapter 8. On Noise and Music. Concrete (reprise), Woolly Mammoth. Conclusion

Greg Hainge is Reader in French and Head of the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and has published widely on cinema, music, critical theory and French literature.

The originality of Hainge’s work is in its philosophical method...He systematically unpacks noise to reveal its complexity, and its materiality in the virtual and actual worlds. Traversing many rich and wide-ranging topics, his book moves beyond the potential traps of falling into truisms, offering a highly nuanced reading of noise in all its materializations.

• IntroductionSECTION 1.Chapter 1. The (not so) Noisy Elephants in the Room. Chapter 2. Noisea.Chapter 3. Noise, Horror, Death. SECTION 2. Chapter 4. On the Difficulties of Attending to Noise. Chapter 5. On the Difficulties of Listening to Noise. SECTION 3.Chapter 6. On Noise and Film. Planet, Rabbit, Lynch. Chapter 7. On Noise and Photography. Forest, Fuzz, Ruff. Chapter 8. On Noise and Music. Concrete (reprise), Woolly Mammoth. Conclusion

Greg Hainge is Reader in French and Head of the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and has published widely on cinema, music, critical theory and French literature.

The originality of Hainge’s work is in its philosophical method...He systematically unpacks noise to reveal its complexity, and its materiality in the virtual and actual worlds. Traversing many rich and wide-ranging topics, his book moves beyond the potential traps of falling into truisms, offering a highly nuanced reading of noise in all its materializations.

• IntroductionSECTION 1.Chapter 1. The (not so) Noisy Elephants in the Room. Chapter 2. Noisea.Chapter 3. Noise, Horror, Death. SECTION 2. Chapter 4. On the Difficulties of Attending to Noise. Chapter 5. On the Difficulties of Listening to Noise. SECTION 3.Chapter 6. On Noise and Film. Planet, Rabbit, Lynch. Chapter 7. On Noise and Photography. Forest, Fuzz, Ruff. Chapter 8. On Noise and Music. Concrete (reprise), Woolly Mammoth. Conclusion