13. Media Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. The Kittlerian Turn
5. 1. Kittler's Humanities 9
6. 2. Tristan's Foolishness as a Truth Event 27
7. 3. Idiocy, Forgetting, and Outdatedness 35
8. 4. Nightblack 46
9. Part II. The Romantic Temptation
10. 5. The Calculable and the Incalculable 69
11. 6. A Science of Hieroglyphs, or the Test of Bildung 84
12. 7. The Clara Complex 93
13. Part III. Live Transference
14. 8. On the Autobahn to Language 107
15. 9. Kittler and Heidegger 123
16. 10. Bones of Contention 137
17. 11. The Rocket and the Ambivalent Introject 150
18. Part IV. On the Genealogy of Media
19. 12. Lamenting the Voice Behind the Chair 167
20. 13. Media Culture 183
21. 14. Recursive Innovation 193
22. 15. Kittler on Music 209
23. 16. The Track of the Fly 231
24. Epilogue 247
25. Contributors 271
26. Index 277