Digitally induced sound has become a key element of contemporary societies, moving back and forth across various media as both shuttle and content. But appreciating this fact is not the same as understanding it. This book is a step towards understanding this new sonic economy, one which never makes the mistake of reducing it to just matters of political economy. It therefore provides a rich and accomplished account of new forms of sonic patterning and their spatial manifestations which is simultaneously a technological reckoning and a signpost to the future.

Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Warwick, UK

We all too often privilege sight, at the expense of the other senses. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from Leibniz to McLuhan to complexity theory, Stephen Kennedy explains why this is wrong, especially when it comes to the digital spaces that we inhabit today. Chaos Media calls on us to make an acoustic turn, and to listen to those aspects of our technological environment that cannot be visualized

Steven Shaviro, Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA.