Friedrich Kittler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277464 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Friedrich Kittler |
| NOMBRES | Friedrich |
| APELLIDO | Kittler |
| FIRMA | KITTLER F |
| AFILIACIONES | Humboldt University in Berlin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 275 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Wagner's Furious Host
Music—“just a sweet pressure of the air”1But for music to once again turn into air after two and half millennia of notes and six hundred years of sheet music, a media war was and is necessary.2 It was started by Wagner's furious host: Furious host, wild hunt, locally also known as the army of Wode or Wuotis, army of anger or rage, wild retinue, or simply wild huntsman, is according to German legend a host led by Wotan (hence the name) or a large …
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
Real Time Analysis, Time Axis Manipulation
This essay traces the advances in time axis manipulation brought about by the media switches from symbolic mediation (alphabet) to analogue recording (phonography and cinematography) and digital processing (computers). Special emphasis is on the mathematical dimension of the final stage. The Fourier transform enables the conversion of sound events into periodicities with numerical values that can then be manipulated and converted back into sound …
Unpublished Preface to Discourse Networks
May 01 2016 Unpublished Preface to Discourse Networks Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Friedrich A. Kittler (1943–2011) was Professor of Aesthetics and History of Media at Humboldt University of Berlin. His books in English include Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (Stanford University Press, 1990); Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays (G+B Arts International, 1997); Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford University Press, 1999); O…
Farewell to Sophienstraße
Mode protégé
Sommes-nous encore maîtres de nos machines d’écriture ? Que se joue-t-il derrière la distinction entre le hardware et le software ? Dans les deux conférences Le logiciel n’existe pas (1991) et Mode protégé (1993), publiées ici pour la première fois en français, un des pères fondateurs de la théorie des médias allemande Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011), interroge la mainmise de l’industrie du logiciel sur nos usages des ordinateurs et nous invite à u…
Auto Bahnen / Free Ways
Taking issue with many official accounts, the essay traces the origins of the German autobahn back to the Battle of Verdun (1916). The military necessity to organize rigidly enforced, intersection-free two-way traffic becomes the model for the construction of the autobahn. Kittler further elaborates its martial character by connecting the movement of military equipment during war to the “tourist invasions” in peacetime
De Nostalgia
The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann, and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian Wars of Liberation, respectively, the plays by Schiller and Kleist engage in the discursive construction of an emphatic sense of heimat (home), either by way of creating the new sentiment of homesick…
Animals of War
The paper provides a brief outline of the way in which the history of war redraws the boundaries between humans, animals (wild and domesticated), and machines
A Short History of the Searchlight
The essay traces the intertwined martial and theatrical histories of searchlights, floodlights, stage lamps, and laterna magica. Inspired in part by Paul Virilio’s emphasis on the close link between war and illumination, the argument centers on the ability of the searchlight to pinpoint objects, isolate them from their surroundings, and thus target them for destruction
Authorship and Love
This early essay from German media theorist Friedrich Kittler examines a number of epistemic shifts occurring in late 18th-century Germany, anticipating in both methodology and content his groundbreaking 1985 work Aufschreibesysteme [ Discourse Networks]. Of primary concern to Kittler here is the invention of what he calls (drawing upon Foucault) the 'authorship-function', product of a new constellation of medial, pedagogical and juridical forces…
In the Wake of the Odyssey
Friedrich Kittler's lecture, given in 2007 as part of the series of Mosse-Lectures, follows the recursions of Homer's Odyssey from its original transcription, coinciding with the invention of the Greek alphabet, through history. The stages of this include Virgil's Aeneid, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Jean-Luc Godard's Le mèpris, and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kittler is concerned with the linkage of poetry, music, and sex from t…
The Cold Model of Structure
The following interview with Friedrich Kittler, conducted by Christoph Weinberger in July 2007, is a passionate and instructive tour de force of pithy sound bites in which Kittler looks back on his work and criticizes alternate approaches to media
Of States and Their Terrorists
This lecture, presented by Friedrich Kittler in 2002 as part of the Mosse Lecture Series at Humboldt University (Berlin), explores in a sequence of short historical vignettes the thesis that power systems such as the old British and the new American empires produce their own, system-specific enemies. In each case the technological environment provides the basis for the struggle between “states” and their “terrorists,” and the success of either pa…
Towards an Ontology of Media
This paper addresses the exclusion of physical and technical media from questions of ontology. It is argued, first, that from Aristotle onwards ontology has dealt with the matter and form of things rather than the relations between things in time and space. Second, it is argued that because the Greeks did not distinguish between speech elements and alphabetic letters there has been a tendency for philosophy to neglect writing as its own technical…
Lightning and Series - Event and Thunder
The article is an attempt to subject a basic figure of historical analysis - the juxtaposition of event and series - to the changing alphanumerical writing systems of Ancient Greece, the Early Modern Age, and the contemporary digitial environment. It shows how the basic mathematical analysis of periodicity and frequency in the realm of sound is, first, a by-product of innovations in war technology and, second, radically changed by different ways …
Number and Numeral
In his essay Thinking Colours and/or Machines Kittler hints at a key point in the emergence of modern European culture: the point at which 'letters and numbers no longer coincide'. In this essay - first published in 2003 as Zahl und Ziffer - Kittler traces the split between numerals and numbers in sweeping historical detail. This is part of a much larger project, the aim of which is to think about technology, history and culture anew by consideri…
Thinking Colours and/or Machines
The article attempts to locate the role of the computer in the long-standing conflict between the humanities on one side and the hard sciences and mathematics on the other. The state-sponsored promotion of philosophy and its subsequent demotion of scientific explanations provoked a scientific counter-attack, in the course of which psychophysical research subjected the human perception apparatus to rigorous investigations that all but mechanized t…
Universities
Blitz und Serie - Ereignis und Donner
Man as a Drunken Town-Musician
The sciences are on stage again. 1 This self-referential assertion is less trivial and less timeless than it sounds
The Flower of the Elite Troops
By means of an initial examination of nineteenth century modern warfare, primarily in Italy and Germany, this article argues that, in the early twentieth century, a number of military models of attack were put in question, particularly during the First World War. Investigating the origins, development and deployment of elite troops throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by way of Heidegger, amongst others, the article attempts to revea…
Zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung
In der modernen Öffentlichkeit wird die Stimme als das Medium einer demokratischen und sozialen Ordnung betrachtet. Sie steht im Zentrum eines umfangreichen Wortfeldes: Stimmrecht, Abstimmung, Volkes Stimme, eine Stimme haben oder die Stimme ergreifen. Ähnlich prominent ist die Stimme im übertragenen Sinne, in der gegenwärtigen Kultur- und Literaturtheorie. Sei es in der berühmten Frage: „Wer spricht?“, im Konzept der Polyphonie oder der Intertex…
The Perspective of Print
Ever since film, television, computer graphics, and virtual reality have made pictures move at ever faster rates, media theories have exhibited puzzling outbursts of delight. Writing in general and books in particular are said to be obsolete, while the image, more powerful and unifying than ever, is poised to reclaim its old rights. I would like to challenge this enthusiasm and the diagnosis it is based on with the counterargument that the book i…
Computer Graphics
January 01 2001 Computer Graphics: A Semi-Technical Introduction Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Friedrich A. Kittler Sara Ogger Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room…
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Optical fiber networks. Soon people will be connected to a communication channel which can be used for any kind of media for the first time in history or for the end of history. When films, music, phone calls, and texts are able to reach the individual household via optical fiber cables, the previously separate media of television, radio, telephone, and mail will become a single medium, standardized according to transmission frequency and bit for…
Towards an Ontology of Media
This paper addresses the exclusion of physical and technical media from questions of ontology. It is argued, first, that from Aristotle onwards ontology has dealt with the matter and form of things rather than the relations between things in time and space. Second, it is argued that because the Greeks did not distinguish between speech elements and alphabetic letters there has been a tendency for philosophy to neglect writing as its own technical…
Number and Numeral
In his essay Thinking Colours and/or Machines Kittler hints at a key point in the emergence of modern European culture: the point at which 'letters and numbers no longer coincide'. In this essay - first published in 2003 as Zahl und Ziffer - Kittler traces the split between numerals and numbers in sweeping historical detail. This is part of a much larger project, the aim of which is to think about technology, history and culture anew by consideri…
Universities
Thinking Colours and/or Machines
The article attempts to locate the role of the computer in the long-standing conflict between the humanities on one side and the hard sciences and mathematics on the other. The state-sponsored promotion of philosophy and its subsequent demotion of scientific explanations provoked a scientific counter-attack, in the course of which psychophysical research subjected the human perception apparatus to rigorous investigations that all but mechanized t…
Real Time Analysis, Time Axis Manipulation
This essay traces the advances in time axis manipulation brought about by the media switches from symbolic mediation (alphabet) to analogue recording (phonography and cinematography) and digital processing (computers). Special emphasis is on the mathematical dimension of the final stage. The Fourier transform enables the conversion of sound events into periodicities with numerical values that can then be manipulated and converted back into sound …
Lightning and Series - Event and Thunder
The article is an attempt to subject a basic figure of historical analysis - the juxtaposition of event and series - to the changing alphanumerical writing systems of Ancient Greece, the Early Modern Age, and the contemporary digitial environment. It shows how the basic mathematical analysis of periodicity and frequency in the realm of sound is, first, a by-product of innovations in war technology and, second, radically changed by different ways …
The City is a Medium
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 4, Autumn 1996
Authorship and Love
This early essay from German media theorist Friedrich Kittler examines a number of epistemic shifts occurring in late 18th-century Germany, anticipating in both methodology and content his groundbreaking 1985 work Aufschreibesysteme [ Discourse Networks]. Of primary concern to Kittler here is the invention of what he calls (drawing upon Foucault) the 'authorship-function', product of a new constellation of medial, pedagogical and juridical forces…
Computer Graphics
January 01 2001 Computer Graphics: A Semi-Technical Introduction Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Friedrich A. Kittler Sara Ogger Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room…
Perspective and the Book
October 01 2001 Perspective and the Book Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Friedrich A. Kittler Sara Ogger Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (5): 38–53. http…
Farewell to Sophienstraße
The Cold Model of Structure
The following interview with Friedrich Kittler, conducted by Christoph Weinberger in July 2007, is a passionate and instructive tour de force of pithy sound bites in which Kittler looks back on his work and criticizes alternate approaches to media
Of States and Their Terrorists
This lecture, presented by Friedrich Kittler in 2002 as part of the Mosse Lecture Series at Humboldt University (Berlin), explores in a sequence of short historical vignettes the thesis that power systems such as the old British and the new American empires produce their own, system-specific enemies. In each case the technological environment provides the basis for the struggle between “states” and their “terrorists,” and the success of either pa…
Man as a Drunken Town-Musician
The sciences are on stage again. 1 This self-referential assertion is less trivial and less timeless than it sounds
The information bomb a conversation
Technologies of Writing
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 4, Autumn 1996
Wagner's Furious Host
Music—“just a sweet pressure of the air”1But for music to once again turn into air after two and half millennia of notes and six hundred years of sheet music, a media war was and is necessary.2 It was started by Wagner's furious host: Furious host, wild hunt, locally also known as the army of Wode or Wuotis, army of anger or rage, wild retinue, or simply wild huntsman, is according to German legend a host led by Wotan (hence the name) or a large …
The Perspective of Print
Ever since film, television, computer graphics, and virtual reality have made pictures move at ever faster rates, media theories have exhibited puzzling outbursts of delight. Writing in general and books in particular are said to be obsolete, while the image, more powerful and unifying than ever, is poised to reclaim its old rights. I would like to challenge this enthusiasm and the diagnosis it is based on with the counterargument that the book i…
The Plague and Cholera
According to their own historiography, the humanities start with Vico's proposition that truth and constructs are convertible. Whatever man has made, no matter how mystical it may be, it should be as recognized as what the ego thinks of in a dream or as an error. This is something that Vico's great opponent, or rather precursor, considered indubitable. To put it more concisely: the modern natural sciences since Descartes and the modern humanities…
Der Traum und Die Rede
Der Traum und die Rede. Eine Analyse der Kommunikationssituation Conrad Ferdinand Meyers (Gegenwart der Dichtung. Neue Folge, Bd. 4)
Mother's Mouth and Typewriter
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Optical fiber networks. Soon people will be connected to a communication channel which can be used for any kind of media for the first time in history or for the end of history. When films, music, phone calls, and texts are able to reach the individual household via optical fiber cables, the previously separate media of television, radio, telephone, and mail will become a single medium, standardized according to transmission frequency and bit for…
Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
Foreword Part I. 1800: 1. The mother's mouth 2. language channels 3. The toast Part II. 1900: 4. The great Lalula 5. Rebus 6. Queen's sacrifice Afterword to the second printing Notes Index of persons.
Benn's Poetry
ONCE ART HAS DISSOLVED into media technologies, certain kind of poetry nevertheless returns. It comes and stays not with reading or mnemotechniques, but simply through radio and audio equipment. This unending and unforgettable oblivion affects our very theories, which are very much written artifacts. When it comes to poetry, almost all theories forget what Jim Morrison's song called Texas radio and the big beat. Gottfried Benn, at the apogee of h…
Der Dichter als Kommandant
Technologies of Writing
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 4, Autumn 1996
The City is a Medium
New Literary History - Volume 27, Number 4, Autumn 1996
The information bomb a conversation
The Plague and Cholera
According to their own historiography, the humanities start with Vico's proposition that truth and constructs are convertible. Whatever man has made, no matter how mystical it may be, it should be as recognized as what the ego thinks of in a dream or as an error. This is something that Vico's great opponent, or rather precursor, considered indubitable. To put it more concisely: the modern natural sciences since Descartes and the modern humanities…
Computer Graphics
January 01 2001 Computer Graphics: A Semi-Technical Introduction Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Friedrich A. Kittler Sara Ogger Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room…
Perspective and the Book
October 01 2001 Perspective and the Book Friedrich A. Kittler, Friedrich A. Kittler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Sara Ogger Sara Ogger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Friedrich A. Kittler Sara Ogger Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (5): 38–53. http…
Zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung
In der modernen Öffentlichkeit wird die Stimme als das Medium einer demokratischen und sozialen Ordnung betrachtet. Sie steht im Zentrum eines umfangreichen Wortfeldes: Stimmrecht, Abstimmung, Volkes Stimme, eine Stimme haben oder die Stimme ergreifen. Ähnlich prominent ist die Stimme im übertragenen Sinne, in der gegenwärtigen Kultur- und Literaturtheorie. Sei es in der berühmten Frage: „Wer spricht?“, im Konzept der Polyphonie oder der Intertex…
The Perspective of Print
Ever since film, television, computer graphics, and virtual reality have made pictures move at ever faster rates, media theories have exhibited puzzling outbursts of delight. Writing in general and books in particular are said to be obsolete, while the image, more powerful and unifying than ever, is poised to reclaim its old rights. I would like to challenge this enthusiasm and the diagnosis it is based on with the counterargument that the book i…
Blitz und Serie - Ereignis und Donner
Man as a Drunken Town-Musician
The sciences are on stage again. 1 This self-referential assertion is less trivial and less timeless than it sounds
The Flower of the Elite Troops
By means of an initial examination of nineteenth century modern warfare, primarily in Italy and Germany, this article argues that, in the early twentieth century, a number of military models of attack were put in question, particularly during the First World War. Investigating the origins, development and deployment of elite troops throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by way of Heidegger, amongst others, the article attempts to revea…
Universities
Lightning and Series - Event and Thunder
The article is an attempt to subject a basic figure of historical analysis - the juxtaposition of event and series - to the changing alphanumerical writing systems of Ancient Greece, the Early Modern Age, and the contemporary digitial environment. It shows how the basic mathematical analysis of periodicity and frequency in the realm of sound is, first, a by-product of innovations in war technology and, second, radically changed by different ways …
Number and Numeral
In his essay Thinking Colours and/or Machines Kittler hints at a key point in the emergence of modern European culture: the point at which 'letters and numbers no longer coincide'. In this essay - first published in 2003 as Zahl und Ziffer - Kittler traces the split between numerals and numbers in sweeping historical detail. This is part of a much larger project, the aim of which is to think about technology, history and culture anew by consideri…
Thinking Colours and/or Machines
The article attempts to locate the role of the computer in the long-standing conflict between the humanities on one side and the hard sciences and mathematics on the other. The state-sponsored promotion of philosophy and its subsequent demotion of scientific explanations provoked a scientific counter-attack, in the course of which psychophysical research subjected the human perception apparatus to rigorous investigations that all but mechanized t…
Towards an Ontology of Media
This paper addresses the exclusion of physical and technical media from questions of ontology. It is argued, first, that from Aristotle onwards ontology has dealt with the matter and form of things rather than the relations between things in time and space. Second, it is argued that because the Greeks did not distinguish between speech elements and alphabetic letters there has been a tendency for philosophy to neglect writing as its own technical…
In the Wake of the Odyssey
Friedrich Kittler's lecture, given in 2007 as part of the series of Mosse-Lectures, follows the recursions of Homer's Odyssey from its original transcription, coinciding with the invention of the Greek alphabet, through history. The stages of this include Virgil's Aeneid, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Jean-Luc Godard's Le mèpris, and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kittler is concerned with the linkage of poetry, music, and sex from t…
The Cold Model of Structure
The following interview with Friedrich Kittler, conducted by Christoph Weinberger in July 2007, is a passionate and instructive tour de force of pithy sound bites in which Kittler looks back on his work and criticizes alternate approaches to media
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