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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Poet, Mother, Child: On the Romantic Invention of Sexuality -- 2. Nietzsche (1844–1900) -- 3. Lullaby of Birdland -- 4. The God of the Ears -- 5. Flechsig, Schreber, Freud: An Information Network at the Turn of the Century -- 6. Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, Film: A Story of Doubles -- 7. Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War -- 8. Heinrich von Ofterdingen as Data Feed -- 9. World-Breath: On Wagner's Media Technology -- 10. The City Is a Medium -- 11. Rock Music: A Misuse of Military Equipment -- 12. Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- 13. The Artificial Intelligence of World War: Alan Turing -- 14. Unconditional Surrender -- 15. Protected Mode -- 16. There Is No Software -- 17. Il fiore delle truppe scelte -- 18. Eros and Aphrodite -- 19. Homer and Writing -- 20. The Alphabet of the Greeks: On the Archeology of Writing -- 21. In the Wake of the Odyssey -- 22. Martin Heidegger, Media, and the Gods of Greece: De-severance Heralds the Approach of the Gods -- 23. Pathos and Ethos: An Aristotelian Observation -- 24. Media History as the Event of Truth: On the Singularity of Friedrich A. Kittler's Works—An Afterword by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Notes -- Credits

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Temporal shortsightedness: on being able to wait -- Looking for the rhythm of the brain -- In the moment: three seconds of presence -- Internal clocks: what we "need" time for -- Life, happiness, and the ultimate time limit -- Winning and losing time : the self and temporality -- Body time : how the sense of time arises -- Notes -- Image credits

"Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that Foucault's concern with ethics and forms of subjectivation is always already integrated into his political concerns and his analytics of power. The book also shows how the concept of government was taken up in different lines of research in France before it gave rise to "governmentality studies" in the Anglophone world. A Critique of Political Reason provides a clear and well-structured exposition that is theoretically challenging but also accessible for a wider audience. Thus, the book can beread both as an original examination of Foucault's concept of government and as a general introduction to his "genealogy of power""--

This book explores modernity under the spell of the 'primitive.' Proponents of the ideology of progress as well as critics of civilization, utopians dreaming of a re-enchanted existence and supporters and opponents of nascent fascism alike were all profoundly shaped by the phantasm of the ,primitive', a central element of which, this book argues, is the notion of 'primitive thought'. This comprises a distinct mode of thinking - characterized by turns as magical, mythical, mystical, or prelogical - that allows for a fundamentally different way of relating to the world. It was associated not only with indigenous cultures, but also with other figures of alterity, such as children and the mentally ill. The book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in the social sciences, writings on art and language, and - most centrally - literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn, and Robert Müller

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: As Long as It Keeps Working … -- I: The Classical Era of Infrastructure -- 1. Public Works: The Nineteenth Century -- 2. Lifelines of Community: The Early Twentieth Century -- 3. The Measure of Modernity: The Late Twentieth Century -- II: Nodes of Infrastructural Debate -- 4. Public, Private, or Partnership? How Infrastructure Is Organized -- 5. Prestige Projects: Symbolic Value and Failure -- 6. Crumbling Bridges: The Life Cycles of Infrastructures -- 7. Achilles' Heels: The Vulnerability of Large-Scale Networks -- 8. The Cold Persona: Users and Operators of Infrastructures -- Conclusion: Down the Drain? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series List.