Friedrich Kittler - An introduction

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; Nicholas Gane

doi:10.1177/0263276406069874

Friedrich Kittler - An introduction

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Nicholas Gane

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Abstract

The introduction provides a short outline of Kittlers biographical background and briefly discusses the stages of his work: The initial discourse-analytical stage of the late 1970s that centered primarily on literary text; the media-theoretical stage of the 1980s and early 1990s that focused in particular on electric and electronic media; and a current stage dedicated to rewriting the origin of one the most basic cultural technologies: the alphanumeric notation system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5+
Number of pages	13
Journal	Theory, Culture and Society
Volume	23
Issue number	7-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276406069874
Publication status	Published - Dec 2006

Keywords

Kittler
media
theory
post-structuralisin

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