Friedrich Kittler Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Michael Wutz
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation--all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written signifier--but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the...
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered nove...
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are free to examine its fundamental influence on Western institutions. From a media-theoretical point of view, subject, state, and law reveal themselves to be effects of specific record-keeping and filing practices. Files are not simply administrative tools; they mediate and process legal systems. The genealogy of the law described in...
Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on c...
Friedrich Kittler (geboren 1943) ist einer der umstrittensten deutschen Theoretiker der Gegenwart. Im Kern seiner Theorie, wo Diskursanalyse, Medienwissenschaft, Musik- und Mathematikgeschichte zusammenflieen, steckt eine technisch fundierte Seinsgeschichte, die khl berechnet, was es mit dem Menschen und der Gesellschaft auf sich hat angesichts jener Aufschreibesysteme und Verschaltungen, die diese Rede erst ermglichen. So radikal sich Kittlers Texte ausnehmen, reprsentativ sind sie sowohl fr den Umbau der Geisteswissenschaften wie fr eine generationsspezifische Nostalgie nach einer...
Friedrich Kittler (geboren 1943) ist einer der umstrittensten deutschen Theoretiker der Gegenwart. Im Kern seiner Theorie, wo Diskursanalyse, Medienwi...
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium's individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and...
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, d...
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium's individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and...
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, d...
