Kittler has his own idiosyncratic and original notions of letters alphabetical, writing and drugs derridas pharmakondissemination, desemennation, data storage, hermeneutics, translation, and the archive the last term seemingly indebted to foucaults the. Obituary switch off all apparatuses friedrich adolf kittler, 19432011. Like foucault, kittler diagnosed the present through what he called discourse analysis the excavation of the underlying structure of human practices. Discourse networks, 18001900 paperback july 1 1992 by friedrich kittler author see all 10 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. It is a mark of how far kittlers reputation had spread in the englishspeaking world that he had acquired his own cutely alliterative epithet. Oct 21, 2011 discourse networks 18001900, kittler s thesis for his habilitation, conferring the right to lecture in german universities, was inspired by the notion that the madman ie schreber sought to. Friedrich kittler discourse networks 18001900 introduction. Cover of discourse networks, by friedrich kittler translated by friedrich kittler translated by michael metteer, with chris cullens foreword by.
Friedrich kittler, discourse networks 18801900, stanford university press, stanford ca, 1990. Friedrich kittler s discourse networks 18001900 thomas sebastian some consider friedrich kittler s discourse networks 180011900 originally published in 1985 under the title aufschreibesysteme 180011900 a rare and outstanding example of the german reception of contemporary french philosophy. Friedrich kittler edit discourse networks 18001900 aufschreibesystem german 1985 english 1990 edit. Buy discourse networks, 18001900 book online at low. Meanwhile, his essays started to pour into english language. Oct 20, 2011 john armitage, from discourse networks to cultural mathematics. Friedrich adolf kittler was born in 1943 in rochlitz in saxony. Discourse networks, 18001900 friedrich kittler translated by. Poststructuralism and posthermenutics kittlers work is deeply influenced by poststructuralism. David wellbery, introducing kittler to a broader englishspeaking audience for the first. As such, it bridges the gap between kittler s discourse analysis of the 1980s and his increasingly computeroriented work of.
In this reading, the hallucinatory powers and spiritual effects of literature derived from a storageandtransmission monopoly that could only. Dec 16, 2015 this video introduces friedrich kittler s most influential concept, the discourse network. Download citation digital humanities and aesthetic autonomy. From this perspective, kittler s lifelong project may be seen as an update. Oct 18, 2011 in media theory, kittler became however the leading figure, due to the two translations.
This is a highly original book about the connections b. Friedrich kittlers discourse networks 18001900 jstor. The concept of discourse networks, as used by kittler, is an attempt to map the interconnections between physical, technological, discursive, and social systems. It offers a comprehensive reading of psychoanalysis into technoscience that grows more convincing the more one gets acclimated to kittler s methods of channel processing across the cybernetic bridge from the nervous system and its psychic apparatus to the aufschreibesysteme of his media discourse networks. Discourse networks 18001900 is like a technologyfocused sequel to foucaults the order of things. Discourse networks 18001900 labyrinthine wiki fandom. But his commentators agree that kittler s media discourse theory follows from foucault as the prime. As such, it bridges the gap between kittlers discourse analysis of the 1980s and his increasingly computeroriented work of the 1990s. Kittler 1992, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems notably literature. The foreword has been prepared specially for this edition.
Michael metteer stanford up, 1990 contrasts the fluid alphabetical script of the 1800s with the mechanical data storage units of the 1900s in order to reveal two completely distinct frameworks for literature. In gramophone, film, typewriter kittler contrasts the restriction of foucaults discourse theory to textual archives with his own wider media band, in which phonographic and cinematic data streams decenter the channel of literary writing. Kittler opens discourse networks 18001900 with one of the most iconic scenes in the canon of german romanticism. The foreword has been prepared specially for this edition by david e. The involvement of mothers in the process of acculturation was a key part of the new mode of literacy. Discourse networks is, imo, kittler s, most subtle, original, and difficult book. The afterlife of friedrich kittlers discourse networks the cresting wave of digital humanities. Kittler is influential in the new approach to media theory that grew popular starting in the 1980s.
Friedrich kittlers book discourse networks, 18001900 is particularly propitious. Foreword to friedrich kittler, discourse networks, 18001900 s. The introduction provides a short outline of kittler s biographical background and briefly discusses the stages of his work. Michael metteer, stanford, stanford university press, 1990, p. In this work, kittler argues against the universality of hermenuetics. However, the focus of the interview is on the core concepts of discourse networks, the militaryindustrial complex, and technology, arguably the three central themes of kittlers work to date. Because hard stuff to read likes to make think that you feel better about you. Dense and theoretically devasting, discourse networks was kittlers seminal work of media archaeology, making good on the work of the french poststructuralists and the underacknowledged influence of marshall mcluhan.
The author focuses on the differences between discourse networks in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to. Friedrich kittlers aufschreibsystem depauw university. Friedrich kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. Oct 11, 2011 friedrich kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. The network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and. Kittler notes that foucault ended his archaeology of discourse around 1850, just before things got going with the second industrial revolution and the expansion of media technologiestypewriter, gramophone, and film each contributing to a medial turn foucault does not address. Poststructuralism criticism corresponds to a posthermeneutic condition of criticism.
The initial discourse analytical stage of the late 1970s that centered primarily on literary text. Gramophone, film, typewriter is, among other things, a continuation as well as a detailed elaboration of the second part of the authors discourse networks, 18001900 stanford, 1990. Northumbria university, uk see all articles by this author. This video introduces friedrich kittler s most influential concept, the discourse network.
Poststructuralism and posthermenutics kittler s work is deeply influenced by poststructuralism. Kittlers biographical and intellectual formation, this interview introduces. Friedrich kittlers technosublime altx online network. Discourse networks, 18001900 paperback july 1, 1992. Ekin erkan 127 it is not the medial technology of the typewriter alone that makes this perception possible. Libros en idiomas extranjeros saltar al contenido principal. His family fled with him to west germany in 1958, where from 1958 to 1963 he went to a natural sciences and modern languages gymnasium in lahr in the black forest, and thereafter, until 1972, he studied german studies, romance philology and philosophy at the albert ludwigs university of freiburg in freiburg im breisgau. If discourse networks was a comparative study of the media systems of 1800 and 1900, kittlers late work is an archaeology of the media system of 300 bcthe very origin of western thought with all its shortcomings, generalizations, and assumptions of universality. Some consider friedrich kittlers discourse networks 180011900 originally published in 1985 under the title aufschreibesysteme 180011900 a rare and outstanding example of the german reception of contemporary french philosophy. Kittler s theory shies away from the frankfurt school and hermeneutics of gadamer and habermas, the dominant literary scientific frameworks in germany of the 1970s and 80s. Kittler is influential in the new approach to media theory that grew popular starting in the 1980s kittler s central project is to prove to the human sciences.
The discourse network of 1900 was the first to establish a treasury of the signifier whose rules were entirely based on randomness and combinatorics 210. If discourse networks was a comparative study of the media systems of 1800 and 1900, kittler s late work is an archaeology of the media system of 300 bcthe very origin of western thought with all its shortcomings, generalizations, and assumptions of universality. Buy discourse networks, 18001900 reprint by kittler, friedrich isbn. Geoffrey winthropyoung and eva horn artforum international. Somewhere i read him characterized as the derrida of media theory and where the writer probably winthropyoung or peters added that of course, kittler would. Following a short discussion of the german philosopher friedrich a. Kittler s work cannot be classified as derridean, foucauldian, or lacanian. His research focused on technical media technischen medien and cultural techniques kulturtechniken. Jan 18, 2014 kittler, discourse networks kittler, friedrich. Discourse networks is, imo, kittlers, most subtle, original, and difficult book. Buy discourse networks, 18001900 book online at best prices in india on. Writing anything after hearing about the death of friedrich kittler 1943 2011 is not really easy, even if it surely will boost the academic publishing industry into a range of publications.
Wellbery born 1947 is an american professor of german studies at the university of chicago. Friedrich kittler translated by michael metteer, with chris cullens foreword by david e. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Discourse networks, 18001900 by kittler, friedrich a. Discourse networks 18001900 friedrich kittler, michael metteer transl. What were getting at here is the total abolition of meaninga pure deconstruction. Kittler notes that foucault ended his archaeology of discourse. Kittler has his own idiosyncratic and original notions of letters alphabetical, writing and drugs derridas pharmakondissemination, desemennation, data storage, hermeneutics, translation, and the archive the last term seemingly indebted to foucaults the archaeology of knowledge vintage. The premise to poststructuralism is that hermeneutic understanding is not a foundational. He is currently the chair of the department of germanic studies and holds the leroy t. Among the writers and works kittler analyzes in addition to goethes faust are schlegel, hegel, e.
Kittler notes that foucault ended his archaeology of. The author focuses on the differences between discourse networks in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. Alone at his desk and hemmed in by heaps of books, goethes faust laments the slavish lifelessness of academic scholarship, which endlessly leads students around by their noses. The afterlife of friedrich kittler s discourse networks the cresting wave of digital humanities and the perceived threat that. From this perspective, kittlers lifelong project may be seen as an update. Friedrich kittler 19432011 was a literary and media scientist medienwissenschaftler. Kittler, 9780804720991, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Friedrich kittler edit discourse networks 18001900 aufschreibesystem german 1985 english 1990 editdense and theoretically devasting, discourse networks was kittler s seminal work of media archaeology, making good on the work of the french poststructuralists and the underacknowledged influence of marshall mcluhan. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The 1900 section argues that the new discourse network in which literature is situated in the modern period is characterized by new technological media film, the photograph, and the. Kittler notes that foucault ended his archaeology of discourse around 1850, just before things got.
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