Miscommunications

What happens when communication breaks down? Is it the condition for mistakes and errors that is characteristic of digital culture? And if mistakes and errors have a certain power what stands behind it?<br/><br/>To address these questions this collection assembles a range of cutting-edge philosophical socio-political art historical and media theoretical inquiries that address contemporary culture as a terrain of miscommunication. If the period since the industrial revolution can be thought of as marked by the realisation of the possibilities for global communication in terms of the telephone telegraph television and finally the internet <i>Miscommunications</i>shows that to think about the contemporary historical moment a new history and theory of these devices needs to be written one which illustrates the emergence of the current cultures of miscommunication and the powers of the false. <br/><br/>The essays in the book chart the new conditions for discourse in the 21st century and collectively show how studies of communication can be refigured when we focus on the capacity for errors accidents mistakes malfunctions and both intentional and non-intentional miscommunications.