Friedrich A. Kittler: Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays (1997)
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An early collection of the writings of Friedrich Kittler in English translation.
The following essays are included: “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter”, “Dracula’s Legacy”, “Romanticism–Psychoanalysis–Film: A History of the Double”, “Media and Drugs in Pynchon’s Second World War”, “Media Wars: Trenches, Lightning, Stars”, “The World of the Symbolic–A World of the Machine”, “There Is No Software” and “Protected Mode”.
Edited and Introduced by John Johnston
Publisher OPA, Amsterdam, 1997
ISBN 9057010712
192 pages
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Comments (5)Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey: Evil Media (2012)
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“Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details.
The title takes the imperative “Don’t be evil” and asks, what would be done any differently in contemporary computational and networked media were that maxim reversed.
Media here are about much more and much less than symbols, stories, information, or communication: media do things. They incite and provoke, twist and bend, leak and manage. In a series of provocative stratagems designed to be used, Evil Media sets its reader an ethical challenge: either remain a transparent intermediary in the networks and chains of communicative power or become oneself an active, transformative medium.”
Publisher MIT Press, 2012
ISBN 0262304406, 9780262304405
235 pages
Review: Nicholas Holm (Media Int’l AU, 2013), Neural (2013).
Evil media on Monoskop wiki
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See also YoHa, et al., Evil Media Distribution Centre, 2013.
Comments (2)Friedrich Kittler: Draculas Vermächtnis: Technische Schriften (1993) [German]
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A collection of essays by Friedrich Kittler, including his famous reading of Dracula.
Essays zu den „Effekten der Sprengung des Schriftmonopols“, zu den Analogmedien Schallplatte, Film und Radio sowie „technische Schriften, die numerisch oder algebraisch verfasst sind“.
Publisher Reclam, Leipzig, 1993
ISBN 3379014761, 9783379014762
259 pages
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Review (Geert Lovink, Mediamatic)
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See also Kittler at Monoskop wiki