Introduction: Glitches as fictional (mis)communication / Nathan Wildman. Maria Korolkova -- Affirmative imperfection rhetoric and aesthetics : a genealogy / Ellen Rutten -- Post communication theory : the non-dialogical / Timothy Barker -- Miscommunication and democratic membership / Reidar Due -- There is no "error" in techo-logics : a radically media-archaeological approach / Wolfgang Ernst -- Quiet in the forest / Frances Dyson -- The guardians of the possible / Stephen Kennedy -- Communicating the incommunicable : formalism and noise in Michel Serres / Thomas Sutherland -- Objects mis-taken : towards the aesthetics of displaced materiality / Maria Korolkova -- Fai(lure) : encounter with the unstable medium in the work of art / Maryam Muliaee, Mani Mehrvarz -- A relational materialist approach to errant media systems : the case of internet video producers / John Hondros -- Negotiating two models of truth : satire, miscommunication and critique in Elle and Laruelle / Alex Lichtenfels -- Disastrous communication : Walter Benjamin's "The railway disaster at the Firth of Tay" / Dominic Smith -- Accidental recordings : unintentional media aesthetics / Ella Klik -- Desert media : glitches, breakdowns, and media arrhythmia in the Sahara / Andrea Mariani -- The error at the end of the internet / Peter Krapp -- From bugs to features : an archaeology of errors and/in/as computer games / Stefan Holtgen -- We interrupt this programme : on the cultural techniques of "technical difficulties" / Jorgen Rahm-Skageby -- Glitches as fictional (mis)communication / Nele Van de Mosselaer, Nathan Wildman.
Summary:
"What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes and errors have a certain power, what stands behind it? To address these questions, this collection assembles a range of cutting-edge philosophical, socio-political, art historical and media theoretical inquiries that address contemporary culture as a terrain of miscommunication. If the period since the industrial revolution can be thought of as marked by the realisation of the possibilities for global communication, in terms of the telephone, telegraph, television, and finally the internet, Miscommunications shows that to think about the contemporary historical moment, a new history and theory of these devices needs to be written, one which illustrates the emergence of the current cultures of miscommunication and the powers of the false. The essays in the book chart the new conditions for discourse in the 21st century and collectively show how studies of communication can be refigured when we focus on the capacity for errors, accidents, mistakes, malfunctions and both intentional and non-intentional miscommunications." -- Back cover.
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