The Truth of the Technological World

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 wr...

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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.

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