Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media
In: Thinking Media Ser.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Mis‐Theories -- Chapter 1: Affirmative Imperfection Rhetoric and Aesthetics: A Genealogy -- Chapter 2: Post-Communication Theory: The Non-Dialogical -- Chapter 3: Miscommunication and Democratic Membership -- Chapter 4: There Is No "Error" in Techno-logics: A Radically Media-Archaeological Approach -- Part Two: Mis‐Sounds -- Chapter 5: Quiet in the Forest -- Chapter 6: The Guardians of the Possible -- Chapter 7: Communicatiing the Incommunicable: Formalism and Noise in Michel Serres -- Part Three: Mis‐Matters -- Chapter 8: Objects Mis-taken: Towards the Aesthetics of Displaced Materiality -- Chapter 9: Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art -- Chapter 10: A Relational Materialist Approach to Errant Media Systems: The Case of Internet Video Producers -- Chapter 11: Negotiating Two Models of Truth: Miscommunication, Aesthetics, and Democracy in Elle and Laruelle -- Part Four: Mis‐Happenings -- Chapter 12: Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's "The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay -- Chapter 13: Accidental Recordings: Unintentional Media Aesthetics -- Chapter 14: Desert Media: Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Arrhythmia in the Sahara -- Part Five: Mis‐Functions -- Chapter 15: The Error at the End of the Internet -- Chapter 16: From Bugs to Features: An Archaeology of Errors and/in/as Computer Games -- Chapter 17: We Interrupt This Program: On the Cultural Techniques of "Technical Difficulties -- Chapter 18: Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication -- Contributors -- Index.