From de-bug to in-bug

online lecture

In contemporary digital media, the 'detournement' of anomalous pieces of code into aesthetic quality (filtering) of what was perceived as error (glitches, interruptions, etc.) transformed a set of disturbances into quality (or more technically, the anomaly has been incorporated into the overall system).

We have witnessed, in the last ten years and thanks to the development of social media, the transition from “de-bug” to what we would like to redefine as “in-bug”.