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This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing critical
scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics
of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational
framework of imperfection studies. In recent years, the trend to
present the notion of imperfection as a plus rather than a problem
has resonated across a range of social and creative disciplines and
a wealth of world localities. As digital tools allow media users to
share ever more suave selfies and success stories, psychologists
promote 'the gifts of imperfections' and point to perfectionism as
a catalyst for rising depression and burnout complaints and suicide
rates among millennials. As sound technologies increasingly permit
musicians to 'smoothen' their work, composers increasingly praise
glitches, noise, and cracks. As genetic engineering upgrades with
swift speed, philosophers, marketeers, and physicians plea 'against
perfection' and supermarkets successfully advertise 'perfectly
imperfect' vegetables. Meanwhile, cultural analysts point at skewed
perspectives, blurry images, and other 'deliberate imperfections'
in new and historical cinema, painting, photography, music, and
literature. While these and other experts applaud imperfection,
scholars in fields ranging from disability studies to tourism
critically interrogate a trend to fetishize imperfection and
poverty. They rightfully warn against projecting privileged (and,
often, emphatically western-biased) feel-good stories onto the less
privileged, the distorted, and the frail. The editors unite the
different strands in imperfection thinking across various
disciplines tools. In fourteen chapters by experts from different
world localities, they offer scholars and students more
historically grounded and more critically informed
conceptualizations of the imperfect. The book editions of this
books are available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing critical
scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics
of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational
framework of imperfection studies. In recent years, the trend to
present the notion of imperfection as a plus rather than a problem
has resonated across a range of social and creative disciplines and
a wealth of world localities. As digital tools allow media users to
share ever more suave selfies and success stories, psychologists
promote 'the gifts of imperfections' and point to perfectionism as
a catalyst for rising depression and burnout complaints and suicide
rates among millennials. As sound technologies increasingly permit
musicians to 'smoothen' their work, composers increasingly praise
glitches, noise, and cracks. As genetic engineering upgrades with
swift speed, philosophers, marketeers, and physicians plea 'against
perfection' and supermarkets successfully advertise 'perfectly
imperfect' vegetables. Meanwhile, cultural analysts point at skewed
perspectives, blurry images, and other 'deliberate imperfections'
in new and historical cinema, painting, photography, music, and
literature. While these and other experts applaud imperfection,
scholars in fields ranging from disability studies to tourism
critically interrogate a trend to fetishize imperfection and
poverty. They rightfully warn against projecting privileged (and,
often, emphatically western-biased) feel-good stories onto the less
privileged, the distorted, and the frail. The editors unite the
different strands in imperfection thinking across various
disciplines tools. In fourteen chapters by experts from different
world localities, they offer scholars and students more
historically grounded and more critically informed
conceptualizations of the imperfect. The book editions of this
books are available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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