[Commlist] New book: Miscommunications Collection

We are delighted to announce the publication of Miscommunications: 
Errors, Mistakes, Media 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/miscommunications-9781501363832/>, edited 
by Maria Korolkova and Timothy Barker, in Thinking | Media series of 
Bloomsbury Academic.

The volume investigates miscommunication and errors in media history and 
cultural theory and includes contributions from key scholars in media 
archaeology, media philosophy and sound studies, such as Wolfgang Ernst, 
Frances Dyson, Stephen Kennedy, and Peter Krapp.

The essays in the book start charting the new conditions for discourse 
in the 21^st  century and collectively they show how studies of 
communication can be refigured when we focus on the capacity for errors, 
accidents, mistakes, malfunctions and both intentional and 
non-intentional miscommunications.

This edited collection presents a unique and original meeting of minds. 
Rather than separating approaches, as is so often the case, into 
technical, cultural, political, aesthetic fields, the book combines 
different perspectives on the idea of miscommunication to inspire new 
insights on this multidisciplinary topic.

For more information, including the table of content, and buying 
options, please visit: 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/miscommunications-9781501363832/

 Table of contents

INTRODUCTION: Bad Operators
Timothy Barker, University of Glasgow, UK, and Maria Korolkova, 
University of Greenwich, UK

PART 1: MIS-THEORIES
Chapter 1: Affirmative Imperfection Rhetoric and Aesthetics: A Genealogy
Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Chapter 2: Post Communication Theory: The Non-Dialogical
Timothy Barker, University of Glasgow, UK
Chapter 3: Miscommunication and Democratic Membership
Reidar Due, University of Oxford, UK
Chapter 4: There is No 'Error' in Techo-logics: A Radically 
Media-Archaeological Approach
Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

PART 2: MIS-SOUNDS
Chapter 5: Quiet in the Forest
Frances Dyson, University of California, USA
Chapter 6: The Guardians of the Possible
Stephen Kennedy, University of Greenwich, UK
Chapter 7: Communicating the Incommunicable: Formalism and Noise in 
Michel Serres
Thomas Sutherland, University of Lincoln, UK

PART 3: MIS-MATTERS
Chapter 8: Objects Mis-taken: Towards the Aesthetics of Displaced 
Materiality
Maria Korolkova, University of Greenwich, UK
Chapter 9: Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art
Maryam Muliaee and Mani Mehrvarz, University at Buffalo, USA
Chapter 10: A Relational Materialist Approach to Errant Media Systems: 
The Case of Internet Video Producers
John Hondros, City, University of London, UK
Chapter 11: Negotiating Two Models of Truth: Satire, Miscommunication 
and Critique in Elle (2016)
Alex Lichtenfels, University of Salford, UK


PART 4: MIS-HAPPENINGS
Chapter 12: Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's 'The Railway 
Disaster at the Firth of Tay'
Dominic Smith, University of Dundee, UK
Chapter 13: Accidental Recordings: Unintentional Media Aesthetics
Ella Klik, The Polonsky Academy, Israel
Chapter 14: Desert Media. Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Arrhythmia in 
the Sahara
Andrea Mariani, University of Udine, Italy

PART 5: MIS-FUNCTIONS
Chapter 15: The Error at the End of the Internet
Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine, USA
Chapter 16: From Bugs to Features: An Archaeology of Errors and/in/as 
Computer Games
Stefan Höltgen, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Chapter 17: We Interrupt This Programme: On the Cultural Techniques of 
'Technical Difficulties'
Jörgen Rahm-Skågeby, Stockholm University, Sweden
Chapter 18: Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
Nele Van de Mosselaer, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Nathan 
Wildman, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------