Friedrich A. Kittler ; [selected and] with an afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Erik Butler
vi, 391 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
"Originally published in German in 2013 under the title Die Wahrheit der technischen Welt."
A collection of twenty-three essays which appeared between 1978 and 2010
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-391)
Poet, mother, child : on the romantic invention of sexuality -- Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Lullaby of birdland -- The god of the ears -- Flechsig/Schreber/Freud : an information-network at the turn of the century -- Romanticism, psychoanalysis, film : a story of doubles -- Media and drugs in Pynchon's Second World War -- Heinrich von Ofterdingen as data-feed -- World-breath : on Wagner's media technology -- The city is a medium -- Rock music, a misuse of military equipment -- Signal-to-noise ratio -- The artificial intelligence of World War : Alan Turing -- Unconditional surrender -- Protected mode -- There is no software -- Il fiore delle truppe scelte -- Eros and Aphrodite -- Homer and writing -- The alphabet of the Greeks : on the archeology of writing -- In the wake of the Odyssey -- Martin Heidegger, media, and the gods of Greece : de-severance heralds the approach of the gods -- Pathos and ethos : an Aristotelian observation -- Media history as the event of truth : on the singularity of Friedrich A. Kittler's works / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht