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G L Î † C H É D I N † R A N $ L A † I O N: Rèading †Ex† And Codè As A Plaÿ Of $Pacés [Glitched In Translation: Reading Text And Code As A Play Of Spaces], Matt Applegate Ph.D.

Faculty Works: DH & NM (2010-2019)

In the decline of floppy disks, pixel art, and 8-bit video games (i.e., the 1990’s), emerging technologies routinely exhibited a plague of inexplicable glitches that would present the user with multi-colored screens, aberrant lines, and stacks of indecipherable characters. The fear of file corruption was lurking around every corner. We backed up our floppy disks onto more floppy disks, blew into our video game cartages, and added more random access memory (RAM) to our computers – all in the hope of eliminating the lurking presence of the glitch. But the glitches that once signaled the fear of data loss are …