Kittler and the Media (Theory and Media) - Softcover

Winthrop-Young, Pro Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745644066 ISBN 13: 9780745644066

Publisher: Polity, 2010

Synopsis

Kittler and the Media offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler's basic ideas. The book provides succinct summaries of Kittler's early discourse-analytical work inspired by French post-structuralism, his media-related theorising and his most recent writings on cultural techniques and the notation systems of Ancient Greece.

About this title

Product Description:

Title: Kittler and the Media <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Geoffrey Winthrop-Young <>Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Review:

"Kittler and the Media is informed, lucid, and entertaining. Winthrop-Young is a world expert writing in both English and German on the work of Friedrich Kittler and I expect this book to become the English-language Virgil for Kittler's 'selva oscura'."
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa

"A key work in contemporary media theory, this study is a step toward readjusting the question of the media in today's debates. Kittler's beland of Heideggerian history of Being and Neitzschean genealogy is meticulously retraced. And - even more importantly - Winthrop-Young addresses a fascination with technology, the beloves twentieth-century enemy of philosophy and the humanities."
Rudiger Campe, Yale University

"Witty, concise and insightful, Kittler and the Media covers the three major phases of Kittler's career, including Kittler's recent work on the Greek alphabet, and traces connecting threads through the different phases. Deeply thought through Kittler and the Media covers essential points of media theory in its German and international contexts."
Katherine Hayles, Duke University

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745644066
• ISBN 13: 9780745644066
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176