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Rehding discusses the music and media theory after Kittler. The basic principles on which Kittler's media theory builds could not be simpler: data goes in, gets processed, and comes out. Or, in slightly more technical language, a medium is defined by three criteria: selection, storage, transmission. This model is enormously flexible, and it allowed Kittler to consider such disparate things as typewriters, the medieval university, and the city.
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The Technological Introject
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, Kittler's work has redrawn the boundaries of disciplines and of scholarly traditions.
The contributors position Kittler in relation to Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Derrida, discourse analysis, film theory, and psychoanalysis. Ultimately, the book shows the continuing relevance of the often uncomfortable questions Kittler opened up about the cultural production and its technological entanglements.
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Farewell to SophienstraBetae
In a speech, founding professor Friedrich Kittler discusses his effective retirement from teaching at the Humboldt-Universitat. He further tells his memories at Sophienstrasse.
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Mythographer of Paradoxes
Friedrich Kittler's farewell words of 5 July 2011, delivered at the original building of the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he had taught during the final eighteen years of his academic career, are of course not among his most intellectually important texts. Rather, this address belongs to those documents whose specific status and relevance depends on a temporal relation to their author's life dates. Kittler's death on 11 October 2011 made the improvised Sophienstrasse address his last public statement and thus gave it the aura of a legacy. Here, Gumbrecht discusses Kittler's appealing paradoxes.
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'Hermenautics': Toward a Disinformation Theory
This essay tracks cybernetic approaches to the task of hermeneutics. From the first paradigm of cybernetics through its development within contemporary lines of research, the question of information processing evokes problems of interpretation shared by humans and machines. The article discusses Friedrich Kittler's notion of \"hermenautics\" in the context of disinformation and contemporary politics. This argument draws out connections between scientist Heinz Von Foerster's writings on the ethics of second-order cybernetics and Hannah Arendt's reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Regimes of disinformation, working to blunt the task of interpretation, are only intensified by the information age. The study of cybernetics can prepare us for the task of adapting hermeneutics to an age of digital dissemination, reading (with) machines.
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Media Technologies and the (Dis)appearance of the Body
This paper explores the intersection of media technologies, the human body, and the formation of knowledge, as seen through the lens of Friedrich Kittler's writings. It argues that the body in Kittler's works does not vanish but reappears in a different way, leading to alienation and estrangement due to the shift from a human-centered perspective to media technologies as the key to understanding the body's physiology. The discussion starts with the reorganization of knowledge based on scientific experiments that reshape our understanding of human beings and their bodies, emphasizing the influence of scientific experiments and media technologies on the perception and measurement of the human body, as well as the alienation effect produced by the visualization of scientific data. Further, this paper discusses the impact of media technologies on human perception and the redefinition of the human body in the digital age. The discussion delves into the idea that media technologies, particularly digital signal processing, can provide insights into human physiology beyond natural sensory capacities. Finally, it concludes that Kittler's deconstruction of the body within various material and technological media frameworks highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and machines, reflecting the contemporary reality of ubiquitous digital technologies.
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Kittler, Friedrich
(1943–2011)
German media theorist born in Rochlitz. His family moved to Lahr in 1958 to escape from East Germany. He went to University in Freiburg, studying Romance philology, German studies, and philosophy. He completed his doctorate on Swiss author and poet ...
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Turning Back Time: Friedrich Kittler, Reversibility, and Media of Time Axis Manipulation
Fraser examines the relationship between modality and mediality, highlighting Friedrich Kittler's work. He asks what it is about technologies of recording, storage, and playback that allows their users to go well beyond simple reversals in manipulating temporal sequences. Observing that any medium that can be read or played back can and will be read or played backward, he focuses on the way in which repeatability and reversibility appear to go hand in hand. He argues that reversals of chronological sequence rely upon recording media's ability to spatialize stretches of time. He closes with a reading of some late Nietzsche fragments in which the brain is analogized to a telegraph operator and reversibility becomes crucial to the body's claim to be a medium in which time-serial data streams can be rearranged, a role Kittler insists that the body cannot play.
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