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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science) [Paperback]

Friedrich Kittler , Michael Wutz , Geoffrey Winthrop-Young , Geoffrey Winthrop Young
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  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press (31 July 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804732337
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804732338
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 2.1 x 22.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 371,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation all data had to pass through the needle s eye of the written signifier but phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the perception of writing from that of a unique expression of a literate individual to that of a sequence of naked material signifiers. Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these media including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators Gramophone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan.

Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies. The book ties the establishment of new discursive practices to the introduction of new media technologies, and it shows how both determine the ways in which psychoanalysis conceives of the psychic apparatus in terms of information machines.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book - great ideas and fun to read! 16 Jan 2013
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This is one of my favorite books. Kittler proposes a radical critique of discourse from the 19th to the 20th centuries in relation to technology. Filled with great ideas and fun to read, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in media studies or critical theory.
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