Stephen Kennedy is an independent researcher and member of the Captivate Heritage Lab, UK. He is the author of Chaos Media: A Sonic Economy of Digital Space (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Future Sounds: The Temporality of Noise (Bloomsbury, 2018). His work engages with digital aesthetics and involves reformulating the idea of noise as a means of supporting philosophical frameworks capable of accounting for the complex nature of contemporary environments.