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The technological introject : Friedrich Kittler between implementation and the incalculable /

"The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across the humanities and social sciences by the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media studies and systems theory to the Franco-American theoretical tradition marked by poststructuralism, K...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Champlin, Jeffrey (Editor), Pfannkuchen, Antje (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Meaning systems.
Subjects:
Kittler, Friedrich A.
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Mass media > Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jeffrey Champlin and Antje Pfannkuchen
  • pt. I. The Kittlerian Turn. 1. Kittler's Humanities: On Implementation / Rüdiger Campe ; 2. Tristan's Foolishness as a Truth Event: On Two of Friedrich Kittler's Late Texts That Expose the History of Being / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; 3. Idiocy, Forgetting, Outdatedness: Friedrich Kittler's Avant-Gardism and the "Time for Other Stories" / Bernhard J. Dotzler 4. Nightblack: Formatting Love / Elisabeth Weber
  • pt. 2. The Romantic Temptation. 5. The Calculable and the Incalculable: Hölderlin after Kittler / Samuel Weber ; 6. A Science of Hieroglyphs, or the Test of Bildung / Antje Pfannkuchen ; 7. The Clara Complex: Kittler on "The Sandman" / Jeffrey Champlin
  • pt. III. Live Transference. 8. On the Autobahn to Language / Mert Bahadır Reisoǧlu ; 9. Kittler and Heidegger: The Trouble with Ent-fernung / Dominik Zechner ; 10. Bones of Contention: Friedrich Kittler's Recursive Realism / Chadwick T. Smith ; 11. The Rocket and the Ambivalent Introject / Laurence A. Rickels
  • pt. IV. On the Genealogy of Media. 12. Lamenting the Voice Behind the Chair / Nimrod Reitman ; 13. Media Culture: Bildung in the Information Age / Hans-Christian von Herrmann ; 14. Recursive Innovation / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young ; 15. Kittler on Music / Ute Holl ; 16. The Track of the Fly: On Hearing and Animality in the Age of Technical Media / Bernhard Siegert
  • Epilogue: Sigh!
  • A Lecture Performance / Avital Ronell
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.