[Air-L] Glitch Poetics by Nathan Jones: new open-access book from Open Humanities Press

[Joanna Zylinska]

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of /Glitch 
Poetics/

by Nathan Allen Jones

Like all Open Humanities Press books, /Glitch Poetics/ is available open 
access (it can be downloaded for free):

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/>

*Book description:*

Glitches are errors where the digital bursts or creeps into our everyday 
lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. Today, when 
computational technology is integrated ever more closely into bodies and 
social structures, glitches are considered by artists and companies 
alike as critical and commercial opportunities, revealing tears in the 
real-virtual binary. Glitch has also increasingly become a metaphor for 
understanding the political and ecological shocks the world pushes into 
the mediasphere each day. In /Glitch Poetics/ Nathan Jones shows how 
contemporary writers and artists are integrating the glitch as a 
literary effect, an affective critique and a realist reflection, at a 
time characterised by breakage, corruption and crisis.


*Endorsements:*

Based on a range of close readings of contemporary literature by writers 
including Linda Stupart, Sam Riviere, Keston Sutherland, Ben Lerner, 
Caroline Bergvall, Erica Scourti, David Peace and the internet 
novelists, and drawing on theories of error, shock, glitch, critical 
posthumanism and code, Jones lays the groundwork for writing that can 
productively engage in the new situation for literature in the context 
of AI, the Anthropocene and the post-digital age. His book articulates 
the working of error in literary and media practice at the horizon of 
human and machine language.

/Glitch Poetics/resists technofuturism, reinventing errancy as a 
necessary aesthetic value of (and crucially against) our time.

/Charles Bernstein/, Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.

So, body-machinic posthuman reader, consider the shock to your system(s) 
when a glitch-error interrupts the coding-decoding mechanisms that 
govern your operations. Disruption to the textual condition occurs as 
voice misrecognition and cycles of translation malform and corrupt the 
poetics of authorial production. The desire for ideological resistance 
may or may not be short-circuited by the predictive algorithm manifest 
in remediating performance and its disruption of literary habits. The 
old attachment to tactical intervention remains, an aspiration still 
making its way through the charged circuits of culture, looking for a 
way to break down the rule-governed barriers between aspiration and 
effective agency. The pathetic subroutines, often destined to crash, 
derive from provisional looping of interference patterns that constantly 
reorder our codified reality. In /Glitch Poetics/ Jones selects vivid 
examples of the ways the glitch can be used deliberately to produce an 
uncomfortable intervention in the current conditions of posthuman 
capitalist culture. Or can it? Read and decide, based on your own 
bodily-machinic receptivity to ‘technological timings’ and ‘leaky 
intrusions’ across the ‘creepy porousness’ of your boundaries.

/Johanna Drucker/, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and 
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCLA.

/Glitch Poetics/figures glitch radically as a key aesthetic condition of 
the contemporary moment. A powerful exploration of how glitch works 
across writing, art and bodies, it reconfigures our understanding of 
technology as an aesthetic force that structures our world.

//

/Olga Goriunova/, Professor of Media, Royal Holloway University of London.



*Author Bio *

Nathan Allen Jones is Lecturer in Fine Art (Digital Media) at Lancaster 
University. Exploring the dynamic relationship between the newest media, 
language and art discourse, he has written and made artworks about 
unicode, blockchain, speed readers and peer-to-peer networks. He is also 
a co-founder (with Sam Skinner) of Torque Editions, whose publications 
include /Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain/ (2017) and /The Act of 
Reading/ (2015), and exhibitions with Tate, Furtherfield and FACT, 
Liverpool.

*Series*

The book is published as part of the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series 
edited by Joanna Zylinska: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/>

**

*Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press include: *

/Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative/, edited by Bernard Stiegler and the 
Internation Collective: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/>

//

/La naturaleza como acontecimiento: El señuelo de lo possible/by Didier 
Debaise: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-acontecimiento/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-acontecimiento/>

//

/Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth 
Era/, edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/>

/Más allá del derecho de autor, editado/by Alberto López Cuenca and 
Renato Bermúdez Dini:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/>

//

/Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the 
Anthropocene: Archive/, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia 
van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/>

/The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented 
Ontology/by Gabriel Yoran: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/>

/La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité/by**Timothy Morton: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/>

/hyposubjects: on becoming human**/by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/>

/Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics/by Daniel 
Ross: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/>

/A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain/by Gary Hall: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury>

/Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies/by Winnie Soon 
and Geoff Cox: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/>

-- 
Joanna Zylinska
Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice
King's College London
Department of Digital Humanities

http://www.joannazylinska.net

LATEST:
Beyond Machine Vision: How to Build a Non-Trivial Perception Machine [open access article]
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2022-issue-no-36-artificial-creativity/

The Future of Media [edited book, open access + print]
https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31658/  
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/future-media

1000 Words: Writer Conversations on Photography [interview]
http://www.1000wordsmag.com/joanna-zylinska/