The Technological Introject : Friedrich Kittler Between Implementation and the Incalculable.
- 1st ed.
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- Meaning Systems Series .
- Meaning Systems Series .
Cover -- THE TECHNOLOGICAL INTROJECT -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part I. The Kittlerian Turn -- 1. Kittler's Humanities: On Implementation -- 2. Tristan's Foolishness as a Truth Event: On Two of Friedrich Kittler's Late Texts That Expose the History of Being -- 3. Idiocy, Forgetting, Outdatedness: Friedrich Kittler's Avant-Gardism and the "Time for Other Stories" -- 4. Nightblack: Formatting Love -- Part II. The Romantic Temptation -- 5. The Calculable and the Incalculable: Hölderlin after Kittler -- 6. A Science of Hieroglyphs, or the Test of Bildung -- 7. The Clara Complex: Kittler on "The Sandman" -- Part III. Live Transference -- 8. On the Autobahn to Language -- 9. Kittler and Heidegger: The Trouble with Ent-fernung -- 10. Bones of Contention: Friedrich Kittler's Recursive Realism -- 11. The Rocket and the Ambivalent Introject -- Part IV. On the Genealogy of Media -- 12. Lamenting the Voice Behind the Chair -- 13. Media Culture: Bildung in the Information Age -- 14. Recursive Innovation -- 15. Kittler on Music -- 16. The Track of the Fly: On Hearing and Animality in the Age of Technical Media -- Epilogue: Sigh!-A Lecture Performance -- List of Contributors -- Index.
This essay collection further familiarizes the English-speaking world with the work of late German media scholar Friedrich Kittler. It features well-established and emergent scholars who present investigations that traverse all of Kittler's major phases, from early studies of German romanticism to his recent volumes on ancient Greece.