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By Friedrich A. Kittler,Erik Butler

ISBN-10: 080479068X

ISBN-13: 9780804790680

ISBN-10: 0804792542

ISBN-13: 9780804792547

Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) mixed the learn of literature, cinema, expertise, and philosophy in a fashion sufficiently novel to be well-known as a brand new box of educational undertaking in his local Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, intended reflecting on how books function as movies, poetry as computing device technology, and track as army apparatus. This quantity collects writings from all phases of the author's prolific profession. Exemplary essays illustrate how issues of shape and inscription make heterogeneous resource fabric (e.g., literary classics and machine layout) interchangeable at the point of function—with far-reaching results for our realizing of the arts and the "hard sciences." wealthy in counterintuitive propositions, sly humor, and sizeable erudition, Kittler's paintings either demanding situations the assumptions of positivistic cultural heritage and exposes the over-abstraction and language video games of philosophers corresponding to Heidegger and Derrida. The twenty-three items accrued right here rfile the highbrow itinerary of 1 of the main unique thinkers in contemporary times—sometimes baffling, usually debatable, and regularly stimulating.

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