Listening in the Afterlife of Data

“David Cecchetto makes an insightful, exciting, and original intervention in the possibility (or impossibility) of relating to humans and machines and, in pure pragmatist spirit, thinking and doing. Addressing urgent questions about the role, use, and scope of computational data within contemporary society and culture, Cecchetto challenges established orthodoxies that interpret relationships between the universal and the particular within communication. Listening in the Afterlife of Data will have a great impact in media and sound studies. It is a precious resource.” - M. Beatrice Fazi, author of Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics

“Rich in paradoxical thought, David Cecchetto’s book explores the incommunication at the heart of communication. Doubling the paradox doubling, he finds that incommunication nevertheless always communicates something. Challenging and intensely rewarding, this book is highly recommended for any interested in data, communication, and listening as an aesthetic response as well as an acoustic sense.” - N. Katherine Hayles, author of Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational

"Listening in the Afterlife of Data is an essential read for artists and scholars interested in digital theory and engaging with and through sound."