Friedrich Kittler: The Truth of the Technological World: Essays on the Genealogy of Presence (2013–) [DE, EN]
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“Few German scholars in the past 50 years have had such a lasting impact on the cultural situation of our time, including its academic institutions, as Friedrich Kittler. It is in large part due to his writings that the radio, the gramophone, and the computer are not just objects of cultural fascination, but also of philosophical reflection.
This volume contains a collection of essays written by Kittler over the course of 40 years which serve as a testament to the enormous breadth, intensity, and the singular creativity of his thought.”
German edition
Edited and with an Afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013
ISBN 9783518732984
432 pages
English edition
Translated by Erik Butler
Publisher Stanford University Press, 2014
ISBN 9780804792622
400 pages
Reviews: Oliver Jahraus (zfm, 2014), Stavros Arabatzis (Weimarer Beiträge, 2014).
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Worldcat (DE)
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Die Wahrheit der technischen Welt (German, EPUB, updated on 2019-11-2)
The Truth of the Technological World (English, updated on 2019-11-2)
Benjamin Noys: Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · accelerationism, capitalism, communism, cyberpunk, futurism, labour, machine, marxism, movement, philosophy, speed, technology
“We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, Malign Velocities tracks this ‘accelerationism‘ as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism – the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the ‘cyberpunk phuturism’ of the ’90s and ’00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism – suggests the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage, negate, and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures of speed.”
Publisher Zero Books, 2014
ISBN 1782793003, 9781782793007
130 pages
EPUB, EPUB (updated on 2019-6-9)
Comment (0)Hermetes Reis de Araújo (ed.): Tecnociência e cultura: ensaios sobre o tempo presente (1998) [Portuguese]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, philosophy, society, technology, technoscience
Os textos aqui reunidos, contrapondo alguns dos principais pensadores da área da história das ciências e das técnicas bem como dos novos fenômenos tecnológicos e midiáticos, são em sua maior parte inéditos e representam uma contribuição importante para as ciências humanas em sua tarefa de tradução deste mundo moldado pela ciência, pela mídia, pela informática, pela biotecnologia, por novas formas de organização política e por novos modos de percepção estética impregnados de tecnologia.
Com textos de Hermetes Reis de Araújo, Paul Virilio, Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Châtelet, Bruno Latour, Cécile Schwartz, Florian Charvolin, Stéphane Huchet, Achim Seiler, Hermínio Martins, François Laruelle.
Publisher Estação Liberdade, São Paulo, 1998
ISBN 8585865865, 9788585865863
269 pages
via Pedro Paulo Fonseca