Mark Nunes (ed.): Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · botnet, error, facebook, glitch, hacktivism, machinima, media culture, new media, noise, tactical media, wikipedia, youtube
Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, “Hack,” contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, “Game,” they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, “Jam,” considers the role of error as both an inherent “counterstrategy” and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society. By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise “slip through” in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010
ISBN 144112120X, 9781441121202
288 pages
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Culture Machine, 12: The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · code, computing, cultural theory, digital humanities, glitch, philosophy, philosophy of technology, software, technology, theory
“The field of the digital humanities embraces various scholarly activities in the humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as well as being engaged in digital media production. Perhaps most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’, it has seen techniques and methods drawn from computer science being used to produce new ways of understanding and approaching humanities texts. But just as interesting as what computer science has to offer the humanities is the question of what the humanities have to offer computer science. Do the humanities really need to draw so heavily on computer science to develop their sense of what the digital humanities might be? These are just some of the issues that are explored in this special issue of Culture Machine.”
Edited by Federica Frabetti
Publisher Open Humanities Press, 2011
Open Access
ISSN 1465-4121
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Rosa Menkman: Glitch Studies Manifesto (2010)
Filed under pamphlet | Tags: · art, glitch, noise
Rosa Menkman has consolidated numerous facets of ephemeral glitch culture and stitched together an exciting document that is both an artistic call to arms and a move to patch “glitch studies” into several recent philosophical movements (eg. bending/breaking as metaphor for différance). As any manifesto should be, the text is charged with energy and numerous digs at the status quo.
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