Description
Book SynopsisBrings to light the critical role of noise and error in the creative potential of digital culture
Trade Review"With a jam-packed intellectual bandwidth, Noise Channels reconfigures how we think about digital culture. Distortion reveals system characteristics: Peter Krapp uses this classic insight to illuminate the vibrant aesthetic and practical offspring of the computer. Marx knew it, Freud knew it, and so do Krapp’s fractious gang of characters. Rarely have the secret affinities among continental high theorists, engineering visionaries, and avant-garde artists been revealed so freshly." —John Durham Peters, University of Iowa
"Noise Channels offers an intriguing and insightful analysis of ‘creative writing’ under the conditions of networked computing. Ranging from hypertext to machinima, it argues that cultural creativity operates by embracing, rather than overcoming or eliminating, limitations (noise). Noise Channels is, beyond doubt, an important contribution to the field of new media studies." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hypertext and Its Anachronisms
2. Terror and Play, or What Was Hacktivism?
3. Noise Floor: Between Tinnitus and Raw Data
4. Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error
5. Machinima and the Suspensions of Animation
Notes
Index
