High-Tech Trash : Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Carolyn L., Author.

Series:

Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique ; 1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253)

Place of Publication:

Oakland University of California Press 2019

Language Note:

English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Welcome to the Failure Age"

1. Colors of Error: Innovation and Failure from Plato to Digital Signal Processing

2. Avant-Garde Glitch: Red Noise, Purple Haze, Black Box

3. Color as Signal/Noise

4. Visual Noise in the New Photography

5. Chroma Glitch: Data as Style

6. The X-Ray Sublime

7. Landscape as Data: From the Classical to the Consumer-Mathematical

Postscript: Miraculous Plastic's Retrograde Sublime

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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OCLC:

1198929616