No Signal No Noise by A Jamali Rad Paperback Book 9781772016307

When Zero the hero of our story stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript theyre thrown into a journey across centuries continents and concepts They travel throughout the Muslim world from Sumeria to India to Baghdad They learn about Europe as other and outside Theyre guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript provides as it traces a history of the number zeroA Jamali Rads No Signal No Noise is a playful poetic hybrid sitting somewhere between philosophical treatise epic poem and experimental novel It is the first installment in The SelfInscribing Machine series a speculative history of the binary and its prototypes that traces concepts of Self and Other as well as the mathematical cultural and philosophical foundations of the machines that drive the contradictions of capital