Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures

Mark Nunes is Chair of the Department of English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts at Southern Polytechnic State University. He is the author of Cyberspaces of Everyday Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). He is also author of several articles on networked social space, including "Ephemeral Cities: Postmodern Urbanism and the Production of Online Space" in Virtual Globalizations (Routledge, 2001) and "Baudrillard in Cyberspace: Internet, Virtuality, and Postmodernity" in Style (1995).

If you have had enough of the logic of maximum performance, organized by process management and promoting maximum predictability and minimum error, this brilliant collection of essays is the book for you. Doubling the history of control through a genealogy of error, this collection maps the possibility of asystematic resistance in cybernetic networks, challenging the reader to imagine the liberating potential of going astray. Giving in to the pull of the unintended and the unforeseen, the glitch aesthetic of jams and hacks, errors and noise outlined in this book provides a possible model of flight from the terror of efficiency that haunts network societies. -- Tiziana Terranova, associate professor in the Sociology of Communications at the Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale'

• INTRODUCTION; Error, Noise and Potential: The Outside of Purpose; Mark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University ; HACK; 1. Revealing Errors; Benjamin Mako Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2. Aesthetics of the Error: Media Art, the Machine, the Unforeseen and the Errant; Tim Barker, University of New South Wales; 3. Information, Noise, et al.; Susan Ballard, Dunedin School of Art; 4. Add-Art and Your Neighbors' Biz: A Tactical Manipulation of Noise; xtine burrough, California State University, Fullerton; 5. Stock Images, Filler Content, Semantic Ambiguity; Christopher Grant Ward; GAME; 6. Gaming the Glitch: Room for Error; Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine; 7. The Seven Million Dollar PowerPoint and Its Aftermath: What Happens When the House Intelligence Committee Sees "Terrorist Use of the Internet" in a Battlefield 2 Fan Film; Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine; 8. Disrupting the Public Sphere: Mediated Noise and Oppositional Politics; Ted Gournelos, Rollins College; 9. Wikipedia, Error, and Fear of the Bad Actor; Mark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University; JAM; 10. Contingent Operations: Reticular Aesthetics, Transduction, and the EKMRZ Trilogy; Michael Dieter, University of Melbourne; 11. Queer/Error: Gay Media Systems and Processes of Abjection; Chad Parkhill, University of Queensland; Jessica Rodgers, Queensland University of Technology; 12. Error-Contagion: Network Hypnosis and Collective Culpability; Tony D. Sampson, University of East London; 13. Error 1337; Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore.