The Truth of the Technological World
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The Truth of the Technological World

Essays on the Genealogy of Presence

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eBook - ePub

The Truth of the Technological World

Essays on the Genealogy of Presence

About this book

Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate as films, poetry as computer science, and music as military equipment. This volume collects writings from all stages of the author's prolific career. Exemplary essays illustrate how matters of form and inscription make heterogeneous source material (e.g., literary classics and computer design) interchangeable on the level of function—with far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the humanities and the "hard sciences." Rich in counterintuitive propositions, sly humor, and vast erudition, Kittler's work both challenges the assumptions of positivistic cultural history and exposes the over-abstraction and language games of philosophers such as Heidegger and Derrida. The twenty-three pieces gathered here document the intellectual itinerary of one of the most original thinkers in recent times—sometimes baffling, often controversial, and always stimulating.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780804792547
9780804790680
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780804792622
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. 1. Poet, Mother, Child: On the Romantic Invention of Sexuality
  6. 2. Nietzsche (1844–1900)
  7. 3. Lullaby of Birdland
  8. 4. The God of the Ears
  9. 5. Flechsig, Schreber, Freud: An Information Network at the Turn of the Century
  10. 6. Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, Film: A Story of Doubles
  11. 7. Media and Drugs in Pynchon’s Second World War
  12. 8. Heinrich von Ofterdingen as Data Feed
  13. 9. World-Breath: On Wagner’s Media Technology
  14. 10. The City Is a Medium
  15. 11. Rock Music: A Misuse of Military Equipment
  16. 12. Signal-to-Noise Ratio
  17. 13. The Artificial Intelligence of World War: Alan Turing
  18. 14. Unconditional Surrender
  19. 15. Protected Mode
  20. 16. There Is No Software
  21. 17. Il fiore delle truppe scelte
  22. 18. Eros and Aphrodite
  23. 19. Homer and Writing
  24. 20. The Alphabet of the Greeks: On the Archeology of Writing
  25. 21. In the Wake of the Odyssey
  26. 22. Martin Heidegger, Media, and the Gods of Greece: De-severance Heralds the Approach of the Gods
  27. 23. Pathos and Ethos: An Aristotelian Observation
  28. 24. Media History as the Event of Truth: On the Singularity of Friedrich A. Kittler’s Works—An Afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
  29. Notes
  30. Credits

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