Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Mis-Theories
Chapter 1: Affirmative Imperfection Rhetoric and Aesthetics: A Genealogy
Chapter 2: Post-Communication Theory: The Non-Dialogical
Chapter 3: Miscommunication and Democratic Membership
Chapter 4: There Is No ""Error"" in Techno-logics: A Radically Media-Archaeological Approach
Part Two: Mis-Sounds
Chapter 5: Quiet in the Forest
Chapter 6: The Guardians of the Possible

Chapter 7: Communicatiing the Incommunicable: Formalism and Noise in Michel Serres
Part Three: Mis-Matters
Chapter 8: Objects Mis-taken: Towards the Aesthetics of Displaced Materiality
Chapter 9: Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art
Chapter 10: A Relational Materialist Approach to Errant Media Systems: The Case of Internet Video Producers
Chapter 11: Negotiating Two Models of Truth: Miscommunication, Aesthetics, and Democracy in Elle and Laruelle
Part Four: Mis-Happenings

Chapter 12: Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's ""The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay
Chapter 13: Accidental Recordings: Unintentional Media Aesthetics
Chapter 14: Desert Media: Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Arrhythmia in the Sahara
Part Five: Mis-Functions
Chapter 15: The Error at the End of the Internet
Chapter 16: From Bugs to Features: An Archaeology of Errors and/in/as Computer Games
Chapter 17: We Interrupt This Program: On the Cultural Techniques of ""Technical Difficulties
Chapter 18: Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication
Contributors
Index