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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.