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Friedrich Kittler

An Introduction

Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver)

Nicholas Gane

University of York, UK

The introduction provides a short outline of Kittler’s biographical background and briefly discusses the stages of his work: The initial discourse-analytical stage of the late 1970s that centered primarily on literary text; the media-theoretical stage of the 1980s and early 1990s that focused in particular on electric and electronic media; and a current stage dedicated to rewriting the origin of one the most basic cultural technologies: the alphanumeric notation system.

Key Words: Kittler • media theory • post-structuralism

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Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 5-16 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0263276406069874


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