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Introduction. <p>Chapter I Background-Biography and Beyond.</p> <p>Chapter II Discourse Analysis.</p> <p>Chapter III Media Theory.</p> <p>Chapter IV Greek Cultural Techniques.</p> <p>Chapter V Controversial Achievements.</p> <p>Further Reading.</p> <p>Works Cited.</p>

"<i>Kittler and the Media</i> is informed, lucid, and entertaining. Winthrop-Young is a world expert writing in both English and German on the work of Friedrich Kittler and I expect this book to become the English-language Virgil for Kittler's 'selva oscura'."<br /> <b>John Durham Peters, University of Iowa</b><br /> <br /> <p>"A key work in contemporary media theory, this study is a step toward readjusting the question of the media in today's debates. Kittler's beland of Heideggerian history of Being and Neitzschean genealogy is meticulously retraced. And - even more importantly - Winthrop-Young addresses a fascination with technology, the beloves twentieth-century enemy of philosophy and the humanities."<br /> <b>Rudiger Campe, Yale University</b></p> <p>"Witty, concise and insightful, <i>Kittler and the Media</i> covers the three major phases of Kittler's career, including Kittler's recent work on the Greek alphabet, and traces connecting threads through the different phases. Deeply thought through <i>Kittler and the Media</i> covers essential points of media theory in its German and international contexts."<br /> <b>Katherine Hayles, Duke University</b></p>

<p><b><span style="color: black;">Geoffrey Winthrop-Young</span></b> <span style="color: black;">is Professor of German at the University of British Columbia.</span></p>

<p><span style="color: black;">With books such as <i>Discourse Networks</i> and <i>Gramophone, Film, Typewriter</i>, and the collection <i>Literature, Media, Information Systems</i>, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world’s most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial and misunderstood.</span></p> <p><i><span style="color: black;">Kittler and the Media</span></i> <span style="color: black;">offers students of media theory an introduction to Kittler’s basic ideas. Following an introduction that situates Kittler’s work against the tumultuous background of German twentieth-century history (from World War II and the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s to reunification), the book provides succinct summaries of Kittler’s early discourse-analytical work inspired by French poststructuralism, his media-related theorizing, and his most recent writings on cultural techniques and the notation systems of ancient Greece.</span></p> <p><span style="color: black;">This clear and engaging overview of a fascinating theorist will be welcomed by students and scholars alike of media, communication, and cultural studies.</span></p>

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