Cubitt, Sean. 2017. Glitch. Cultural Politics, 13(1), pp. 19-33. ISSN 1743-2197 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

Glitches, formally artifacts of errors in electronic transmission like CD stutters or dead pixels, interrupt communication and distract audiences without wrecking the systems they occur in. Permanent irritants, they operate as irruptions of difference into the indifferent flux of commodity exchange. They reveal the exclusions, notably of noise, that enable rational communication, and the underpinning dependence of ostensibly unique items in semantic chains on their mutual indifference. Glitches are symbols whose non-­‐human labor reveals the limits of humanism.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3755156
Keywords:	Glitch, media, technology, labor
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 1 March 2017 Published 18 May 2016 Accepted
Item ID:	18389
Date Deposited:	20 May 2016 10:59
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:18
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18389

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