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High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure

By Carolyn L. Kane

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780520974494
DOI
10.1515/9780520974494
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27094995 bytes)
Series
Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique; 1
Pages
252\247
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 14:26:06

Description

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in failure. Carolyn L. Kane explores how technologically influenced creative practices, primarily from the second half of the twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first centuries, critically offset a broader culture of pervasive risk and discontent. In so doing, she questions how we continue onward, striving to do better and acquire more, despite inevitable disappointment. High-Tech Trash speaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.

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