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It's a very nice framework that you develop here. I've always been intrigued by Simondon's induction and transduction and it's nice to see them applied here. If anything, as a reader, the first part of your text left me wondering whether you already intend this section as point of technology critique or whether you merely want to (re)define the aims of ANC in terms of your conceptual framework. For, it seems to me that "listening ... as cognitive labor" and "generating acoustically isolating and socially alienating the individual" are often precisely the aims and claims of ANC products -- i.e. to isolate oneself at work by instituting a sonic cubical.

As a possible way to expand, I'd be curious to hear more about the difference between ANC and playing music, or brown/white/purple noise on your headphones as a means to isolate oneself? Is there a particular characteristic that is different from locking oneself out with ANC than what these forms of noise also do?

Moreover, your text made me think of "I'm Sitting in a Room" by Alvin Lucier. It would be great to hear the ANC edition. For example, I can imagine different brands/tech have a different effect on the audio, as they have different filters for what counts as noise. Such a media take would not see them as pristine filters, but exploit their glitches/failures as a means to explore their normative effect.