TY - BOOK ID - 13993425 TI - The truth of the technological world : essays on the genealogy of presence AU - Kittler, Friedrich A. AU - Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich AU - Butler, Erik PY - 2013 SN - 9780804790680 9780804792547 9780804792622 080479068X 0804792542 0804792623 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Communication and technology KW - Literature KW - Communication KW - Technology KW - Philosophy. KW - History and criticism. KW - Engineering sciences. Technology KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Mass communications KW - Philosophy KW - History and criticism KW - Technology and civilization KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - Technology and communication KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - #SBIB:39A8 KW - #SBIB:309H02 KW - Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie KW - Communicatiewetenschap: algemeen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:13993425 AB - Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate as films, poetry as computer science, and music as military equipment. This volume collects writings from all stages of the author's prolific career. Exemplary essays illustrate how matters of form and inscription make heterogeneous source material (e.g., literary classics and computer design) interchangeable on the level of function—with far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the humanities and the "hard sciences." Rich in counterintuitive propositions, sly humor, and vast erudition, Kittler's work both challenges the assumptions of positivistic cultural history and exposes the over-abstraction and language games of philosophers such as Heidegger and Derrida. The twenty-three pieces gathered here document the intellectual itinerary of one of the most original thinkers in recent times—sometimes baffling, often controversial, and always stimulating. ER -