The truth of the technological world : essays on the genealogy of presence /

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...

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Main Author: Kittler, Friedrich A. (Author)
Other Authors: Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich (Author of introduction, etc.), Butler, Erik (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Poet, mother, child : on the romantic invention of sexuality
  • Nietzsche (1844-1900)
  • Lullaby of birdland
  • The god of the ears
  • Flechsig/Schreber/Freud : an information-network at the turn of the century
  • Romanticism, psychoanalysis, film : a story of doubles
  • Media and drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
  • Heinrich von Ofterdingen as data-feed
  • World-breath : on Wagner's media technology
  • The city is a medium
  • Rock music, a misuse of military equipment
  • Signal-to-noise ratio
  • The artificial intelligence of World War : Alan Turing
  • Unconditional surrender
  • Protected mode
  • There is no software
  • Il fiore delle truppe scelte
  • Eros and Aphrodite
  • Homer and writing
  • The alphabet of the Greeks : on the archeology of writing
  • In the wake of the Odyssey
  • Martin Heidegger, media, and the gods of Greece : de-severance heralds the approach of the gods
  • Pathos and ethos : an Aristotelian observation
  • Media history as the event of truth : on the singularity of Friedrich A. Kittler's works / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.