JSTOR

High-Tech Trash

Author

Kane, Carolyn L.

Year

2019

Publisher

University of California Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Language Arts & Disciplines

Language

English

Pages

252

ISBN

978-0-52097-449-4

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric

Description

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 necessary for technological innovation.

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