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"Media determine our situation."
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Friedrich KittlerTechnologies that not only subvert writing, but engulf it and carry it — Friedrich Kittler
"Technologies that not only subvert writing, but engulf it and carry it off along with so-called Man, render their own description impossible. Increasingly, data flows once confined to books and later to records and films are disappearing into black holes and boxes that, as artificial intelligences, are bidding us farewell on their way to nameless high commands. In this situation we are left only with reminiscences, that is to say, with stories."
Technologies that not only subvert writing, but engulf it and carry it off along with so-called Man, render their own de
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Friedrich Kittler
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Friedrich Adolf Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.
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Friedrich Adolf Kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.
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"Printed laments over the death of Man or the subject always arrive too late."
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"Nur was schaltbar ist, ist überhaupt. [Only that which is switchable, exists.]"
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"[Discourse network is ] The network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data."
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"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."
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"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."
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