| Description |
xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical voices in art, theory and culture |
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Critical voices in art, theory and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Friedrich Kittler: Media Theory After Poststructuralism / John Johnston -- Essays / Friedrich A. Kittler. 1. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. 2. Dracula's Legacy. 3. Romanticism - Psychoanalysis - Film: A History of the Double. 4. Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War. 5. Media Wars: Trenches, Lightning, Stars. 6. The World of the Symbolic - A World of the Machine. 7. There Is No Software. 8. Protected Mode |
| Summary |
"This volume introduces to an English-reading public the writings and insights of Friedrich A. Kittler, who - in the words of Robert C. Golub - is "the most imaginative and original of the German post-structuralists." The merging of the discourses of literature, of war, and of technology into a unified theme is Kittler's unique contribution to contemporary theory. The result of his research is a vision of the future in which the distinction between mediums is erased. Kittler, by focusing on the relationship between twentieth-century media, psychoanalysis, literature, war, and computer technology, follows Marshall McLuhan in his understanding of the effects of the media on our lives, and Paul Virilio in his understanding of the military origins of the new technologies."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-191) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) |
| Subject |
Mass media and literature.
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Mass media and technology.
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Technology in literature.
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Mass media in literature.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Johnston, John, 1947-
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| LC no. |
99458395 |
| ISBN |
9057010615 |
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9057010712 |
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