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 Blitzkr…
"A collection of eighteen essays by Friedrich Kittler (many previously untranslated and several unpublished texts) written over three decades, on the close connections between war and media technology.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 sp…
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 Blitzkr…
"A collection of eighteen essays by Friedrich Kittler (many previously untranslated and several unpublished texts) written over three decades, on the close connections between war and media technology.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 sp…
"Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology."--
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. ""Media studies, "" as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how book…
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. ""Media studies, "" as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how book…
Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books o…