Geoffrey Winthrop-Young: Kittler and the Media (2011)

“With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world’s most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial and misunderstood.

Kittler and the Media offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler’s basic ideas. Following an introduction that situates Kittler’s work against the tumultuous background of German 20th-century history (from the Second World War and the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s to reunification), 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.

This clear and engaging overview of a fascinating theorist will be welcomed by students and scholars alike of media, communication and cultural studies.”

Publisher Polity, 2011
Theory and Media series
ISBN 0745644066, 9780745644066
165 pages

Publisher

PDF (updated on 2019-12-8)

Michel Foucault: The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969-) [FR, ES, IT, EN, BR-PT, AR, SR, TR, CZ, RU]

“The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir) is a methodological treatise promoting what the French philosopher Michel Foucault calls “archaeology” or the “archaeological method”, an analytical method he implicitly used in his previous works Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, and The Order of Things. It is Foucault’s only explicitly methodological work.

The premise of the book is that systems of thought and knowledge (“epistemes” or “discursive formations”) are governed by rules (beyond those of grammar and logic) which operate in the consciousness of individual subjects and define a system of conceptual possibilities that determines the boundaries of thought in a given domain and period.” (from Wikipedia)

French edition
Publisher Editions Gallimard, 1969
275 pages

English edition: The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language
Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith
Discourse on Language was originally published in French as L’ordre du discours, Editions Gallimard, 1971. English translation by Rupert Swyer
Publisher Pantheon Books, New York, 1972
ISBN 0394711068
246 pages
via esco_bar

wikipedia

L’archéologie du savoir (French, 1969, no OCR)
La arqueología del saber (Spanish, trans. Aurelio Garzón del Camino, 1970/2002, no OCR)
L’archeologia del sapere: Una metodologia per la storia della cultura (Italian, trans. Giovanni Bogliolo, 4th edition, 1971/2009, via oize, EPUB)
The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language (English, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith and Rupert Swyer, 1972). Routledge Classics edition (2002, added on 2013-6-28)
A Arqueologia do Saber (BR-Portuguese, trans. Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves, 7th edition, 1972/2008, no OCR, no OCR)
حفريات-المعرفة-فوكو (Arabic, 1987, no OCR)
Arheologija znanja (Serbian, trans. Mladen Kozomara, 1998, no OCR)
Bilginin arkeolojisi (Turkish, trans. Veli Urhan, 1999, no OCR)
Archeologie vědění (Czech, trans. Čestmír Pelikán, 2002, no OCR)
Археология знания (Russian, trans. М. Б. Ракова and А. Ю. Серебрянникова, 2004, PDF, added on 2013-9-26), DJVU

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (1982–) [EN, DE, PT, ES]

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault’s work as a whole.

To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault’s work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault’s work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method—”interpretative analytics”—capable of explaining both the logic of structuralism’s claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subject and his tradition.

First published in 1982
Second Edition With an Afterword by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1983
ISBN 0226163121, 9780226163123
256 pages

German edition
Translated by Claus Rath and Ulrich Raulff
Originally published by Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
Second edition
Publisher Beltz Athenäum Verlag, Weinheim, 1994
ISBN 3895470503
327 pages

Foucault at Monoskop wiki

review (Peter Kemp, History and Theory)
review (Tracy B. Strong, Political Theory)
review (Dominick Lacapra, The American Historical Review)
review (David Hoy, London Review of Books)
review (Michael Donnelly, American Journal of Sociology)
review (Ian Hacking, The Journal of Philosophy)
review (Mary Maynard, The British Journal of Sociology)
review (Randall McGowen, Comparative Literature)
review (Mark Seltzer, Diacritics)

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Google books (EN)

Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (English, 1982/1983)
Michel Foucault: Zwischen Strukturalismus und Hermeneutik (German, trans. Claus Rath and Ulrich Raulff, 1987/1994, no OCR)
Foucault. Uma trajetória filosófica. Para além do estruturalismo e da hermenêutica (Portuguese, trans. Vera Porto Carrero, 1995, low-res, no OCR, added on 2014-3-6)
Foucault: más allá del estructuralismo y la hermenéutica (Spanish, trans. Rogelio C. Paredes, 2001, added on 2014-5-27)