The truth of the technological world essays on the genealogy of presence / Friedrich A. Kittler ; with an afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by Erik Butler.
| Author/creator | Kittler, Friedrich A. |
| Other author | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013] |
| Description | vi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Wahrheit der technischen Welt. English |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | "Originally published in German in 2013 under the title Die Wahrheit der technischen Welt." |
| General note | A collection of twenty-three essays which appeared between 1978 and 2010. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-391). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014010076 |
| ISBN | 9780804790680 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780804792547 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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