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High-tech trash : glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure
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High-tech trash : glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure / Carolyn L. Kane.
ISBN
9780520340145
0520340140
9780520974494
Publication
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xiii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.
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.
Other formats
Online version: Kane, Carolyn L. High-tech trash Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2021
Series
Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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