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Bloomsbury Academic Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures (Thinking Media)

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This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies. In recent years, the trend to present the notion of imperfection as a plus rather than a problem has resonated across a range of social and creative disciplines and a wealth of world localities. As digital tools allow media users to share ever more suave selfies and success stories, psychologists promote 'the gifts of imperfections' and point to perfectionism as a catalyst for rising depression and burnout complaints and suicide rates among millennials. As sound technologies increasingly permit musicians to 'smoothen' their work, composers increasingly praise glitches, noise, and cracks. As genetic engineering upgrades with swift speed, philosophers, marketeers, and physicians plea 'against perfection' and supermarkets successfully advertise 'perfectly imperfect' vegetables. Meanwhile, cultural analysts point at skewed perspectives, blurry images, and other 'deliberate imperfections' in new and historical cinema, painting, photography, music, and literature. While these and other experts applaud imperfection, scholars in fields ranging from disability studies to tourism critically interrogate a trend to fetishize imperfection and poverty. They rightfully warn against projecting privileged (and, often, emphatically western-biased) feel-good stories onto the less privileged, the distorted, and the frail. The editors unite the different strands in imperfection thinking across various disciplines tools. In fourteen chapters by experts from different world localities, they offer scholars and students more historically grounded and more critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. About the Author Caleb Kelly is a curator/academic from New Zealand. He teaches at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Kelly’s areas of interest are sound (art) and noise. His publications include Gallery Sound (2017), Sound (ed.) (2011) and Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction (2009).Jakko Kemper is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). His research focuses on digital culture and the aesthetics of imperfection, and is part of the NWO-funded research project Sublime Imperfections. His work has previously been published in Information, Communication & Society and Intermediality.Ellen Rutten is Professor of Literature at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her interests include Russian & global contemporary literature, art, and media. She is author of Sincerity after Communism (2017), co-editor of Memory, Media and Conflict (2014), and leader of the research project ‘Sublime Imperfections’ (2015-2020).

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1501380346
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2021
Listed Since: 26 May 2021

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