news | Monday November 4, 2024

Hot Off the Press! No Signal No Noise Has Arrived!

No Signal No Noise by A Jamali Rad is here! Part philosophical treatise, part epic poem, and part experimental novel, No Signal No Noise is the first book in The Self-Inscribing Machine series, a speculative history of the binary and its prototypes. When Zero, the hero of our story, stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript, they’re 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. They’re guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript provides as it traces a history of the number zero.

An excerpt from “How to Draw a Circle”:

“If you pinch the top of the Zero and twist it just a little, you
get a sort of curved teardrop shape, reminiscent of a seed, a
leaf, a feather, or a cypress tree.

Like pieces of a puzzle, two of these shapes can exist in a circle.
A newly formed Zero containing two of its own altered forms.”

Pick up your copy of No Signal No Noise here.