Imperfections : studies in mistakes, flaws, and failures / edited by Caleb Kelly, Jakko Kemper and Ellen Rutten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Caleb, 1972- editor.

Kemper, Jakko, editor.

Rutten, Ellen, 1975- editor.

Series:

Thinking media (Bloomsbury (Firm)).

Thinking media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideals (Aesthetics).

Imperfection.

Film & Media, Media Theory, Media History.

Local Subjects:

Film & Media, Media Theory, Media History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

"In recent years, the trend to present the notion of imperfection as a plus rather than a problem has resonated across a range of social and creative disciplines and a wealth of world localities. As digital tools allow media users to share ever more suave selfies and success stories, psychologists promote 'the gifts of imperfections' and point to perfectionism as a catalyst for rising depression and burnout complaints and suicide rates among millennials. As sound technologies increasingly permit musicians to 'smoothen' their work, composers increasingly praise glitches, noise, and cracks. As genetic engineering upgrades with swift speed, philosophers, marketeers, and physicians plea 'against perfection' and supermarkets successfully advertize 'perfectly imperfect' vegetables. Meanwhile, cultural analysts point at skewed perspectives, blurry images, and other 'deliberate imperfections' in new and historical cinema, painting, photography, music, and literature. In less positive terms, scholars in fields ranging from disability studies to tourism critically interrogate a trend to fetishize imperfection and poverty. They rightfully warn against projecting privileged (and, often, emphatically western-biased) feel-good stories onto the less privileged, the distorted, or the frail. Imperfections synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies. With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Imperfect shapes

Imperfect sounds & systems

Imperfect selves.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501380334

1501380338

OCLC:

1295807215