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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- THE TECHNOLOGICAL INTROJECT
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- 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
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