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“Kittler’s thesis is timely and intriguing. . . . To read this book is to take a wild ride through philosophy, music, the visual arts, popular culture, engineering, psychoanalysis, the history of science, literature, communication studies, film studies, and more. . . . This book belongs on any reading list in media studies, and should be essential for anyone interested in the intersections of comparative literature, literary theory, and media studies. Gramaphone, Film, and Typewriter is a stunning achievement. . . .”—The Comparalist
“Recommended for graduate collections in media studies, especially those including European scholarship.”—Choice
“Friedrich Kittler proves a welcome exception to the standardized academic format of many of his German colleagues. . . . The excellent translation by Geoffrey-Winthrop Young and Michael Wutz is highly readable (no awkward Germanisms) and is preceded by a thorough and incisive introduction. . . . The present volume is Kittler’s most accessible work so far, since it is written for expert and general reader alike.”—Johns Hopkins University Press
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Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, past theoretical discussion of the responses to these media - including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators - Gramphone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan. Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, and the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies.
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universal discrete machine, time axis manipulation, chronophotographic gun, founding age, writing ball, film tricks, sound storage, trace detection, discourse network, technological media, primal sound, stroboscopic effect, media link, army equipment, framed story, acoustic events Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Juan, Second World War, First World War, Minnie Tipp, Mailing Hansen, United States, Anna Pomke, Army High Command, Bletchley Park, Professor Pschorr, Steilers Fritz, Felice Bauer, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, Pink Floyd, Abnossah Pschorr, Army Communications, Electric Ladyland, Charles Cros, Alabastra Theater, Animal Locomotion, Barbara La Marr, Bell Labs, Coastal Command, Franz Kafka New!
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