[Commlist] new book: High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure

new book:

Kane, Carolyn L., /High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure 
<https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520340145/high-tech-trash>/, 
(University of California Press, 2019).

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520340145/high-tech-trash
https://www.amazon.com/High-Tech-Trash-Aesthetic-Rhetoric-Critique/dp/0520340140

Summary

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 generates 
technological innovation.

Reviews:
“Leonard Cohen sang ‘There’s a crack in everything … that’s how the 
light gets in.’ Here, Carolyn Kane teaches us how to see that light, one 
crack at a time.” –Fred Turner, Stanford University and author of The 
Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World 
War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

“Kane profiles art practices and media discourses that exploit and 
celebrate, rather than filter or suppress, all kinds of errors and 
noises. A welcome intervention in a number of discursive fields.” –Peter 
Krapp, University of California, Irvine and author of Noise Channels: 
Glitch and Error in Digital Culture

“An original work of scholarship that addresses some of the most 
pervasive phenomena and foundational questions in the contemporary media 
environment.” –Robert Hariman, Northwestern University and coauthor of 
The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship


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