Traversing through these origins, we can also arrive at an understanding of glitch as a mode of nonperformance: the “failure to…
Traversing through these origins, we can also arrive at an understanding of glitch as a mode of nonperformance: the “failure to perform,” an outright refusal, a “nope” in its own right, expertly executed by machine. This performance failure reveals technology pushing back against the weighty onus of function. Through these movements, technology does, indeed, get slippery: we see evidence of this in unresponsive pages that present us with the fatalistic binary of choosing to “kill” or “wait,” the rainbow wheel of death, the “Sad Mac” iconography, a frozen screen — all indicative of a fatal system blunder.
Legacy Russell. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London: Verso, 2020.