When the Glitch Comes
A glitch—a digital fault or interruption—reveals just how fragile technology truly is.
It is both a trace of a past malfunction and a harbinger of a greater collapse yet to come.
Like ghosts, glitches haunt time: they emerge from the past while pointing toward future breakdowns.
Each digital rupture whispers the same warning:
"This system will fail."
A glitch marks the uncontrollable dimension of the digital world.
A good glitch is that which “lets us feel the beast inside the machine,” disrupting the illusion of seamless visual flow and exposing the system’s raw instability.
In today's technologically complex world, we often struggle to understand the purpose of our own writing/ destiny, especially in code.
This suggests that even the creators of technology can no longer fully grasp the systems they’ve built.
The glitch is the moment this unknowability becomes visible.
Though everything on the surface may appear to function smoothly, unseen processes operate beneath.
beyond our comprehension.
This is not a mere error, but a structural feature of digital systems:
an entanglement of control and randomness.
But the system is neither control nor chaos. only the illusion of both, staged to hide its depths.
Thus, the glitch is not just a mistake; like a ghost, it exposes the invisible, revealing the system’s hidden face and pushing the limits of human understanding.
It is spectral in itself and it summons the specters that reside within our machines.
When you become unlabelable, you become the ghost.
And the algorithm (built to sort, tag, and target) can no longer hold you.
Ghosts can’t be deleted. Only felt.
Not visibility, but sabotage.
Not transparency, but disruption.
When we seek to fracture the system’s narrative control, the glitch is our signal.
Modern technology amplifies the power of ghosts.
And the future belongs to them.
Be the glitch in the system.