Figure Lury, Celia; Viney, William; Wark, Scott
2022, 2022-10-26
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This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, ...and representations. Contributors reflect on the history of figures as they have transformed disciplines and fields of study, and how methods of figuring and configuring have been integral to practices of description, computation, creation, criticism and political action. They do this by following figures across fields of social science, medicine, art, literature, media, politics, philosophy, history, anthropology, and science and technology studies. Readers will encounter figures as various as Je Suis Charlie, #MeToo, social media personae, gardeners, asthmatic children, systems configuration management and cloud computing – all demonstrate the methodological utility and contemporary relevance of thinking with figures. This book serves as a critical guide to a world of figures and a creative invitation to “go figure!”
This thesis focuses on the contextualization of my artistic practice, which explores digital
glitch as a disruptive force and an aesthetic treatment in the contemporary technological
world. While the ...body of work draws on the methodology of glitch art, this paper attempts
to relate the idea of glitch to a wider range of philosophical and artistic frameworks
stemming from Lettrism, Situationist International, Punk, and Nihilism. The aim of this
investigation of a digital disturbance through its categorization into natural, stimulated and
assimilated glitch, is to facilitate an understanding of the glitch event as both something
threatening and attractive, while it transitions from a spontaneous to a controlled process in
a photoreal image. The passing of the destructive glitch from life to art is placed against the
backdrop of the apocalypse, which one may imagine as a literal and metaphorical disaster in
the physical world and value systems of western society.
vii, 113 leaves ; col. ill. ; 29 cm
