Optical media berlin lectures 1999 polity 2012 see other formats. Neural optical media is the most engaging and accessible of friedrich kittler s books. Friedrich kittler, the wellknown exponent of german media theory, proposes three basic media functions, namely. Friedrich adolf kittler nacio en 1943 en rochlitz, sajonia. Friedrich kittlers media theory have already been examined and. Aufscheribesysteme kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. In the case of printing, this new media made copying books easier and faster, and allowed for easier data processing by numbering pages and having identical copies of the same edition of a particular book. Discourse networks, 18001900 friedrich kittler translated. German geoffrey winthropyoung, drill and distraction in the yellow submarine. My work in literary criticism was not only a pretext but also a. Friedrich kittler optical media pdf meerschaum pipes. Kittler gramophone pdf gramophone, film, typewriter. Friedrich kittler is, even in english, one of the bestknown figures in the flourishing field of media studies, thanks to the excellent translations of discourse networks stanford 1990.
It starts out with a clear presentation of kittler smedia. Friedrich kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military. Kittler born 1943 in rochlitz, saxony is a literary scientist and a media theorist. Kittler june 12, 1943 october 18, 2011 was a literary scholar and a media. Like kittler, he draws on historic fact, anecdote, and literature. Friedrich kittler 19432011 was a literary and media scientist. Programme des poststrukturalismus, schoningh, paderborn, wien, zurich 1980 einleitung.
Kittler and the media is informed, lucid, and entertaining. Pdf writing science friedrich kittler gramophone, film. With studies like discourse networks 18001900 and gramophone, film, typewriter, friedrich a. Medientheorie excluded, and what ernsts version has also to keep in.
The dominance of war in friedrich kittler s media theory, critical inquiry 28. Friedrich kittler s concept of media can be seen to address the need within the humanities to develop an adequate conceptual vocabulary for dealing with technology and the way it is embedded in. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. This essay undertakes to more precisely characterize kittler s historiographical approach. Soon people will be connected to a communication channel which can be used for any kind of media. In memory of friedrich kittler 19432011 introduction. On friedrich kittlers conception of media userpage.
His family fled with him to west germany in 1958, where from 1958 to 1963 he went to a natural sciences and modern languages gymnasium in lahr in the black forest. The notions of technological determinism and hardware euphoriakittler 1993b, 182 in. He begins by looking at european painting since the renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organised. Friedrich kittler translated by michael metteer, with chris cullens foreword by david e. Friedrich kittler 19432011 was a literary and media scientist medienwissenschaftler. His works relate to media, technology, and the military biography. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Kittler s lectures provide stimulating and provocative reading.
From this vantage point he explicates the theoretical and practical consequences of friedrich kittler s insights into the social and psychological effects of the processes by john johnstons background combines expertise in modern literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and. Kittler, media and madness steven connor a lecture given at media matters. In an interview with john armitage published in 2006, kittler spoke of his stratagem for speaking his mind. Because hard stuff to read likes to make think that you feel better about you.
Grammatologies of the present time have to start with a rather sad statement. Kittler june 12, 1943 october 18, 2011 was a literary scholar and a media theorist. Sehr geehrter herr professor kittler, einleitend mochte ich sie darum bitten, ihren intellektuellen weg kurz zu rekapitulieren. It contains my spanish translation from the original german versions of the following essays and interventions by friedrich kittler, during the period between 1985 and 2003. Kittler, grammophon film typewriter, berlin 1986, 32. These have been called the toronto school of communication and german discourse analysis of media diskursanalyse technischer medien. Pdf decades after its provocative beginnings with friedrich kittlers.
Friedrich kittler and media discourse analysis it was the germans, those disastrous people, who first discovered that slag heaps and byproducts might also count as learning, but i doubt if we can blame any one race or nation in particular for setting dumps and dustbins above the treasure cabinets of scholarship. His family fled with him to west germany in 1958, where from 1958 to 1963 he went to a natural sciences and modern languages gymnasium in lahr in the black. May 10, 2016 harold innis and friedrich kittler are exemplary thinkers in, if not founders of, two quite distinct fields in communication and media studies. This paper addresses the exclusion of physical and technical media from questions of ontology. To be sure, kittler can be and has been criticized for many things, but to contend that the secret agenda of his gloomy rantings is the lament over the displacement of the printed word is a bit like describing guns n roses as gregorian choir boys. Friedrich kittler the history of communication media.
Friedrich kittler was a literary scholar and disciurse media theorist. Writing science friedrich kittler gramophone, film, typewriter stanford university press 1999. Friedrich kittler s light shows john durham peters optical media may be friedrich kittler s best book for the uniniti ated. Kittler 1993b, 182 the notions of technological determinism and hardware euphoria kittler 1993b, 182 in friedrich kittler s media theory have already been examined and critically assessed many times.
Diskursanalytischer medienbegriff friedrich kittler. Literature, media, information systems critical voices friedrich kittler, john johnston on. His family fled with him to west germany in 1958, where from 1958 to 1963 he went to a natural sciences and modern languages gymnasium in lahr in the black forest, and thereafter, until 1972, he studied german studies, romance philology and philosophy at the albert ludwigs university of freiburg in freiburg im breisgau. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Dec 30, 2000 geislers account of kittler, however, is somewhat baffling. New formations kittler s analysis is always rich and involving, describing a complex path of theoretical and factual relations. Jan 01, 2002 kittler begins by looking at european painting since the renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. He also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, this major new book provides a concise history of optical media from renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth. Kittler pick up the gravitys rainbow readers guidefind the source text, and quote that.
Kittler remarks that the development of new media does not make old media obsolete, but rather reassigns the old media to other places. He begins by looking at european painting since the renaissance in order to discern the principles according. Language loses its inwardnessand individuals learn the autonomy of linguistic expression to. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Kittler s theory shies away from the frankfurt school and hermeneutics of gadamer and habermas, the dominant literary scientific frameworks in germany of the 1970s and 80s. They follow the logic of escalation that leaves a written history. Friedrich adolf kittler sa nascut in 1943 in localitatea rochlitz din saxonia. This video introduces friedrich kittler s most influential concept, the discourse network. Kittler also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, like. His research focused on technical media technischen medien and cultural techniques kulturtechniken. Courtlyn rated it it was ok apr 23, its hard playful, narrow, paranoid.
Friedrich adolf kittler was born in 1943 in rochlitz in saxony. Friedrich kittler and technoculture, tate modern, 28 june 2008. The history of communication media ucla design media. Analysis end page of these short stories, poems, letters, memoirs, articles, commentaries, and the attendant discourses lets him argue for the technological determinism of culture, if not history. Media theories of the unconscious in 1933, the russian developmental psychologist lev vygotsky famously wrote that the central fact about our psychology is the fact of mediation. Literature, media, information systems by friedrich a. When we look back on his early contributions to studies of the relationship between literature, madness and. Oct 18, 2011 josef wallmannsberger, friedrich a kittler, in metzler lexikon medientheorie medienwissenschaft, ed. Friedrich kittlers argument that the essence of the human has escaped into. Towards an ontology of media friedrich kittler, 2009. Kittler is influential in the new approach to media theory that grew popular starting in the 1980s.
Friedrich kittler academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Literature, media, information systems critical voices. The history of communication media friedrich kittler introduction what follows is on attempt to discuss the history of communication technologies as far as this is humanly possible in general terms. This essay undertakes to more precisely characterize kittlers historiographical approach.
Kittler contributed significantly to transforming the history of media into a vital field of inquiry. It is argued, first, that from aristotle onwards ontology has dealt with the matter and form of things rather than the relations between things in time and space. Winthropyoung is a world expert writing in both english and german on the work of friedrich kittler and i expect this book to become the englishlanguage virgil for kittler s selva oscura. Friedrich kittler s lecture series provides a concise history of optical media from renaissance linear perspective to late twentiethcentury computer graphics. Kittler june 12, october 18, was a literary scholar and a media. The objective is ultimately the outline of a scientific history of the media an outline for the simple reason that media sciences is a new.
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