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High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure
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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.
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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252 pages, Paperback
First published December 17, 2019
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May 28, 2022
The introduction and first chapter of this book are absolutely outstanding. Unfortunately, the case studies and textual examples deployed through the book are not looped back to the key arguments about failure.
There are theoretical 'stubs' provided, particularly with regard to acceleration. A theorization of speed, digitization and failure would have added enormously to this monograph.
Unfortunately, I kept wondering throughout the reading of the case studies why this example was chosen and how it connected to the argument.
There is the foundation for a strong book here, but it is fragmented and lacking the spine of a concise analysis.
There are theoretical 'stubs' provided, particularly with regard to acceleration. A theorization of speed, digitization and failure would have added enormously to this monograph.
Unfortunately, I kept wondering throughout the reading of the case studies why this example was chosen and how it connected to the argument.
There is the foundation for a strong book here, but it is fragmented and lacking the spine of a concise analysis.
March 8, 2024
Very insightful to glitch aesthetics and glitch theory. Covers a wide range of ideas which can be a lot to swallow first read. I would’ve preferred more of a niche focus eg on just the aesthetic of the glitch or on the political aspects of the glitch. However I think it gives a very good and detailed overview into glitch art and is good for those wanting to get to know about it
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