{"product_id":"kittler-now-current-perspectives-in-kittler-studies-hardback-9780745653006","title":"Kittler Now; Current Perspectives in Kittler Studies (Hardback) 9780745653006","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKittler Now\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCurrent Perspectives in Kittler Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Sale (Author), Laura Salisbury (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745653006, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this book, Kittler is painted as a forceful post-humanist thinker. His achievements include expanding what media theory can be through his pursuit of non-disciplinary energies. The contributors to this volume acknowledge this aspect of his work, which alludes to art, philosophy, science, and other modes of cultural production in an 'eye-popping manner'. Kittler nonetheless defies familiar understandings of interdisciplinary research and challenges established research models. The best essays in this volume practice such an expanded form of humanities research.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Friedrich Kittler was one of the most daring intellectual figures of the late-20th\/early-21st Century. This brilliant collection of essays responds to his ground-breaking work on media, mathematics, music, poetry and war. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to question the status of the 'human' in a world populated increasingly by media and machines.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNicholas Gane, Warwick University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Kittler's radical intervention in the Humanities has long been one of Anglophone academia's best kept secrets, partly because as a chain-smoker he disliked traveling on planes, and partly because much of his work has yet to be translated from German. This welcome volume not only offers two essays by Kittler himself, the other contributions here, by some of the most vitally important media studies scholars today, help import Kittler's provocations to the history and theory of cultural technologies into English-speaking academic discourse.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePeter Krapp, UC Irvine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"While media studies are currently strengthening their impact on the critical debate in the Anglophone world, it remains an open issue how to describe their specific question and, hence, their place in the humanities. Friedrich Kittler has been one of the few where to look for a comprehensive answer. This is the one point the volume addresses, beginning with the excellent introduction to Kittler's work by the editors. Even more important in Kittler Now is, however, how his work is debated and adapted, critically modified and in some respects even radicalized in the ongoing, new, reception in England, the US and elsewhere. The volume presents engaged and competent essays which unfold Kittler's famous “question of technology” to the humanities in often unexpected and critical, in very different and yet always exemplary ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRüdiger Campe, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Friedrich Kittler's media histories changed German media studies profoundly. His legacy has been felt across Europe. This collection brings together some of the best scholars on Kittler to assess and develop his work, and to place it against contemporary English-speaking media theory and philosophy. Especially valuable is a section on Kittler's late work on music and mathematics, including two of his own essays from that still untranslated body of work. Rather than place Kittler historically, the authors bring his questing, testing method to life for the next generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music and mathematics. Always controversial and relentlessly unpredictable, Kittler’s work is a major reference point for contemporary media theory, literary criticism and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the only book of essays currently available in English on an important thinker whose influence across disciplines is growing. The volume situates Kittler’s ideas, explaining and critiquing his sometimes difficult writing, and using his theories to undertake innovative readings of old and new media. It also includes previously untranslated work by Kittler himself. Contributors include Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor, Alexander R. Galloway, Mark B. Hansen, John Durham Peters and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors' introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: Grecian 2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Friedrich Kittler -- The God of Ears (Translated by \u003ci\u003ePaul Feigelfeld and Anthony Moore\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. John Durham Peters -- Assessing Kittler's Musik und Mathematik\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Stephen Sale -- Thinking By Numbers: the role of mathematics in Kittler and Heidegger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- Siren Recursions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Friedrich Kittler -- Preparing the Arrival of the Gods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: \"Our Writing Tools are also Working on our Thoughts\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Steven Connor -- Scilicet: Kittler, Media and Madness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Katherine Biers -- The Typewriter's Truth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Gill Partington -- Films in Books\/Books in Film: Fahrenheit 451 and the Media Wars\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Theorising New Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Alexander R. Galloway -- If the Cinema Is an Ontology, the Computer Is an Ethic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Caroline Bassett -- Staring into the Sun\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Mark B. N. Hansen -- Symbolising Time: Kittler and 21st Century Media\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated by Paul Feigelfeld and Anthony Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407323099416,"sku":"9780745653006","price":43.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745653006.jpg?v=1784161836","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/kittler-now-current-perspectives-in-kittler-studies-hardback-9780745653006","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}