The Technological Introject - (Meaning Systems) by Jeffrey Champlin & Antje Pfannkuchen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This essay collection further familiarizes the English-speaking world with the work of late German media scholar Friedrich Kittler. It features well-established and emergent scholars who present investigations that traverse all of Kittler's major phases, from early studies of German romanticism to his recent volumes on ancient Greece.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across the humanities and social sciences by the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media studies and systems theory to the Franco-American theoretical tradition marked by poststructuralism, Kittler's work has redrawn the boundaries of disciplines and of scholarly traditions. <p/>The contributors position Kittler in relation to Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Derrida, discourse analysis, film theory, and psychoanalysis. Ultimately, the book shows the continuing relevance of the often uncomfortable questions Kittler opened up about the cultural production and its technological entanglements.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Spearheaded by New York philosophy icon Avital Ronell, this book pays tribute to Germany's most controversial yet most original media theorist, who completely changed the German academic landscape by following his declared goal to drive the human out of the humanities. In completely new and exciting ways, the essays collected in this important volume introduce Friedrich Kittler's radical and challenging approach to the study of Western culture, literature, and philosophy to an American audience.<b>-----Arne Hocker, <i>University of Colorado Boulder</i></b><br><br>"The Technological Introject marks a major contribution to the work of the late Friedrich Kittler, whose defining impact on the fields of discourse analysis, media studies, and the archaeology of technology is increasingly recognized. Featuring essays by well-established and emergent scholars and engaging all the major phases of Kittler's rich academic life--from his early studies of German literature to his late volumes on music and mathematics, including his recent work on the history of sound--the contributors position Kittler's work in relation to French poststructuralism, the German literary and philosophical tradition he reacted against, and the theories and practices of media discourse analysis which he significantly redefined and enlarged. Erudite and avant-garde, The Technological Introject is among the first volumes to offer a posthumous assessment of Kittler's reach and to map the considerable legacy of a major theorist on the way we think (all things) 'media.'"<b>-----Michael Wutz, <i>Weber State University</i></b><br>
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