David Roden teaches Philosophy at the Open University His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound and posthumanism. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge 2014) considers the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical implications of the existence of posthumans: powerful nonhuman agents produced by human-instigated technological processes. The Noise of the Future (lecture) Our posthuman predicament is real enough, but can only be formulated in empty terms. Consequently, there can be no posthuman ethics, only an aesthetics of uncontrolled, noisy futures. These will be explored through aesthetic models – including the ‘weird’ fiction of China Miéville and Jeff Vandermeer, noise music and practices of body modification. Each model will be used to give determination to the idea of a technologically transformative encounter at the edge of the human. www.open.ac.uk/roden