Miscommunications

Errors, Mistakes, Media

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes and errors have a certain power, what stands behind it?To address these questions, this collection assembles a range of cutting-edge philosophical, socio-political, art historical and media theoretical inquiries that address contemporary culture as a terrain of miscommunication. If the period since the industrial revolution can be thought of as marked by the realisation of the possibilities for global communication, in terms of the telephone, telegraph, television, and finally the internet, Miscommunications shows that to think about the contemporary historical moment, a new history and theory of these devices needs to be written, one which illustrates the emergence of the current cultures of miscommunication and the powers of the false. The essays in the book chart the new conditions for discourse in the 21st century and collectively 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-28
Mått136 x 214 x 22 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThinking Media
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501373282

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Maria Korolkova is a senior lecturer in media and film studies and academic portfolio lead in media at the University of Greenwich, UK, specialising in visual culture, intermediality, film, architecture, cultural theory, and Russian culture. In her research, Maria explores themes of miscommunication and chaos, global media, visual and sonic cultures, as well as the relationship between film and architecture. Maria has curated public events in internationally renowned institutions such as The Barbican, Courtauld Institute of Arts, Regents Street Cinema, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and others.Timothy Barker is a senior lecturer in digital media and the head of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of two books, Time and the Digital (2012) and Against Transmission (Bloomsbury, 2017), both of which outline a media philosophical approach for addressing questions of time and mediation in the contemporary world. His broad research interests include digital media theory, philosophies of technology, game studies and process philosophy.

INTRODUCTION: Bad Operators Timothy Barker, University of Glasgow, UK, and Maria Korolkova, University of Greenwich, UKPART 1: MIS-THEORIESChapter 1: Affirmative Imperfection Rhetoric and Aesthetics: A Genealogy Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsChapter 2: Post Communication Theory: The Non-Dialogical Timothy Barker, University of Glasgow, UKChapter 3: Miscommunication and Democratic Membership Reidar Due, University of Oxford, UKChapter 4: There is No ‘Error’ in Techo-logics: A Radically Media-Archaeological Approach Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyPART 2: MIS-SOUNDSChapter 5: Quiet in the Forest Frances Dyson, University of California, USAChapter 6: The Guardians of the Possible Stephen Kennedy, University of Greenwich, UKChapter 7: Communicating the Incommunicable: Formalism and Noise in Michel Serres Thomas Sutherland, University of Lincoln, UKPART 3: MIS-MATTERSChapter 8: Objects Mis-taken: Towards the Aesthetics of Displaced Materiality Maria Korolkova, University of Greenwich, UKChapter 9: Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of ArtMaryam Muliaee and Mani Mehrvarz, University at Buffalo, USAChapter 10: A Relational Materialist Approach to Errant Media Systems: The Case of Internet Video Producers John Hondros, City, University of London, UKChapter 11: Negotiating Two Models of Truth: Satire, Miscommunication and Critique in Elle (2016) Alex Lichtenfels, University of Salford, UKPART 4: MIS-HAPPENINGSChapter 12: Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay’ Dominic Smith, University of Dundee, UKChapter 13: Accidental Recordings: Unintentional Media Aesthetics Ella Klik, The Polonsky Academy, IsraelChapter 14: Desert Media. Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Arrhythmia in the Sahara Andrea Mariani, University of Udine, ItalyPART 5: MIS-FUNCTIONSChapter 15: The Error at the End of the Internet Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine, USAChapter 16: From Bugs to Features: An Archaeology of Errors and/in/as Computer Games Stefan Höltgen, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyChapter 17: We Interrupt This Programme: On the Cultural Techniques of ‘Technical Difficulties’Jörgen Rahm-Skågeby, Stockholm University, SwedenChapter 18: Glitches as Fictional (Mis)CommunicationNele Van de Mosselaer, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Nathan Wildman, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsIndex

In the so-called post-truth age it is important to critically reflect on the construction, or constructedness, of any type of communication, from human dialogues to news reporting, from fictional media forms to electronic signals, from artistic practices to computer algorithms. With respect to the current waves of fake news, new academic research about miscommunication and misinformation is not only welcome, but also urgently needed. It is especially essential to distinguish between communication and information, or even better, to rethink communication as a process of (mis)information transfer, as an action of human and non-human actors, each with their own intentions, inattentions, imperfections, material qualities, etc. In order to grasp the complexity of this topical subject, it is crucial to adopt a combined media technological, media philosophical and media historical approach. This is precisely what the volume Miscommunication: Errors, Mistakes and the Media, edited by Maria Korolkova and Timothy Barker, is offering.