Operation Valhalla: writings on war, weapons, and media
"A collection of eighteen essays by Friedrich Kittler (many previously untranslated and several unpublished texts) written over three decades, on the close connections between war and media technology. Notwithstanding the wealth of Kittler translations, edited collections and special issues released so far, Operation Valhalla is the first volume of its kind-containing only essays that specifically address the question of war: its hardware, media, historical mutations and discursive mobilization…
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- Full title :Operation Valhalla : writings on war, weapons, and media / Friedrich Kittler ; edited and translated by Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, and Michael Wutz.
Summary
"A collection of eighteen essays by Friedrich Kittler (many previously untranslated and several unpublished texts) written over three decades, on the close connections between war and media technology. Notwithstanding the wealth of Kittler translations, edited collections and special issues released so far, Operation Valhalla is the first volume of its kind-containing only essays that specifically address the question of war: its hardware, media, historical mutations and discursive mobilizations - from Prussia's wars against Napoleon, via the two World Wars and up to the (so-called) War on Terror"--
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- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781478010715, 1478010711, 9781478011842, 147801184X
- oclc:on1258393932
- Dewey Decimal:302.23
Table of Contents
Guns, Germans and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War -- Free ways -- A Short History of the Searchlight -- Fragments of a History of Firearms -- Tanks -- Wires, Waves and Wagner -- Noises of War -- Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama -- Operation Valhalla -- When the Blitzkrieg Raged -- Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads -- Animals of War -- On Modern Warfare. A Conversation with Alexander Kluge -- Of States and Their Terrorists -- Love and War -- Manners of Death in War -- Ottilie Hauptmann -- Pynchon's War -- On a Novel that Would Not Only Be Fiction -- De Nostalgia -- Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War -- Kittler on Kittler -- Biogeography -- Theology.
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