Miscommunications: Errors, Mistakes, Media (Paperback)

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