Media determine our situation. — Friedrich Kittler

"Printed laments over the death of Man or the subject always arrive too late."

"Nur was schaltbar ist, ist überhaupt. [Only that which is switchable, exists.]"

"[Discourse network is ] The network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data."

"Culture is not the accumulation of concert reviews, a bit of science and a literary journal. But that is very difficult to change... Our parents were so ashamed after the war that they didnt want to touch technology anymore. Then Adorno flew in and his student Habermas announced the separation of communicative and instrumental reason."

"What remains of people is what media can store and communicate. What counts are not the messages or the content with which they equip so-called souls for the duration of the technological era, but rather (and in strict accordance to McLuhan) their circuits, the very schematism of their perceptibility."

"And when Liesegang edited his Contributions to the Problem of Electrical Television in 1899, thus naming the medium, the principle had already been converted into a basic circuit. Television was and is not a desire of so-called humans, but rather it is largely a civilian byproduct of military electronics. That much should be clear."