Book2-High-Tech
Kane, Carolyn L., (University of California Press, 2019).
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.
鈥淟eonard Cohen sang 鈥楾here鈥檚 a crack in everything 鈥� that鈥檚 how the light gets in.鈥� Here, Carolyn Kane teaches us how to see that light, one crack at a time.鈥� 鈥揊red Turner, Stanford University and author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
鈥淜ane 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.鈥� 鈥揚eter Krapp, University of California, Irvine and author of Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture
鈥淎n original work of scholarship that addresses some of the most pervasive phenomena and foundational questions in the contemporary media environment.鈥� 鈥揜obert Hariman, Northwestern University and coauthor of The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship