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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
0520340140, 9780520340145
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (44259730 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
252\253
Time added
2020-01-29 18:03:04

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.orgto learn more. High-Tech Trashanalyzes 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 Trashspeaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.

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