Sources and bibliography:

1. Menkman, R. (2011). Glitch Studies Manifesto
Key Argument: Menkman frames glitch as an aesthetic and systemic rupture within, a momentary breakdown that exposes the hidden structures of technological systems.
How Used: Provided the foundational theory for understanding glitch as more than error, but as a critical praxis. The manifesto’s focus on technological failure informed the project’s initial premise: glitch as sabotage.Purpose in Research: Menkman’s technological focus was critiqued through embodied practice. While she emphasizes digital artifacts, my Glitch Questionnaire revealed how systemic violence operates beyond screens—in bureaucratic language and material consequences.
2. Russell, L. (2020). Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto:
Key Argument: Russell reimagines glitch as a survival tactic for queer, Black, and marginalized bodies, advocating for "error" as a way to evade oppressive categorization. She positiones glitch as a means to "crash" gendered and racialized binaries.
How Used: Framed glitch’s liberatory potential, particularly in discussions of identity and illegibility
Purpose in Research:it set the biggest theoretical framework that relied on my first romantization on the phenomena of glitch.
3. Haraway, D. (1985). A Cyborg Manifesto
Key Argument: Haraway’s cyborg,a hybrid of machine and organism, challenges binaries (human/machine, nature/culture) through impure coalitions. She argues for infiltration as a form of resistance.
4. Berardi, F. (2018). Breathing: Chaos and Poetry
Key Argument: Berardi traces algorithm to the Greek algos (pain), arguing computational logic inflicts violence by reducing fluid human experiences into rigid data.
How Used: Explained the Glitch Questionnaire’s algorithmic cruelty. Questions about identity and economics mirrored how systems "compress" lives into checkboxes.
Purpose in Research: Linked abstract algorithmic critique to the very existence of algorithmic structure and its importance and presence.
5. Curtis, A. (2011). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Key Argument: Curtis critiques cybernetics’ failed promise of self-regulating utopias, showing how systems demand conformity and punish complexity.
How Used: contextualized the case study of Van Dyne’s model and mirrored how institutions pathologize and correct deviations.
Purpose in Research: Exposed systems’ fear of unpredictability—a fear the quiz performed by "blocking" non-normative users.
6. Van Dyne, G. (1969). The Ecosystem Concept
Key Argument: Van Dyne’s failed grassland model (1970s) revealed algorithmic modeling’s inability to process ecological complexity.
How Used: contextualized algorithms’ flaws. Just as the model couldn’t predict ecosystems, systems fail to categorize queer/disabled/BIPOC lives.
Purpose in Research: Demonstrated that systemic rigidity inevitably produces glitches, but who can safely live the consequences?






Berardi, Franco "Bifo." 2018. Breathing: Chaos and Poetry. South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e).
Curtis, Adam, dir. 2011. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. BBC Two Documentary Series.
Haraway, Donna. 1985. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 149-181. New York: Routledge.

Menkman, Rosa. 2011. The Glitch Moment(um). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Russell, Legacy. 2020. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London: Verso.
Van Dyne, George M., ed. 1969. The Ecosystem Concept in Natural Resource Management. New York: Academic Press.
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