Blindness or insight? Kittler on culture
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 107, Heft 1, S. 39-46
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
For a long time, 'culture' appears only to be an effect of the power of discourses and media in Friedrich Kittler's works. But in his Berlin lecture series on the cultural history of cultural studies, he discusses the historical formations in which a discrete science of culture could emerge. His perspective not only highlights the historical foundations but also the blind spots of cultural studies.