Introduction : "Welcome to the failure age" -- Colors of error : from Plato to digital signal processing -- Avant-garde glitch : red noise, purple haze, black box -- Color as signal/noise -- Visual noise in the new photography -- Chroma glitch : data as style -- The X-ray sublime -- Landscape as data : from the classical to the consumer-mathematical -- Postscript : miraculous plastic's retrograde sublime.
Summary:
"High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure maps an archaeology of failure in a culture seemingly ill-equipped to deal with it. To better understand failure, Kane argues, we must abstract from our subjective, personal disappointments and see them as meaningful symbols of a broader human struggle. By connecting twenty-first century digital aesthetics to critical issues in the history of high-tech, the book elucidates what it means to be an error-prone, fallible human in an age of hyper technology; to fail again and again without recourse to anything but repetition"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique
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