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With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, 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. Kittler and the Media 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 20th-century history (from the Second World War 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 post-structuralism, his media-related theorising and his most recent writings on cultural techniques and the notation systems of Ancient Greece. This clear and engaging overview of a fascinating theorist will be welcomed by students and scholars alike of media, communication and cultural studies.

This article offers an introduction to the German concept of Kulturtechniken (cultural techniques), with a special focus on the term's multilayered semantic career, as well as on the way old notions of Kultur are at play in the concept.

This essay is a companion piece to Friedrich Kittler's lecture "Of States and Their Terrorists." It provides additional background, especially for Kittler's discussion of the German Red Army Faction (RAF ), and discusses the various sources (from Friedrich Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt) that inform Kittler's broader historical survey of technology and enmity.

This essay, a sequence of short memories and reflections, describes several encounters with Friedrich Kittler in Freiburg between 1980 and 1985.

The paper discusses some of the key factors that shaped Friedrich Kittler's anglophone reception. Four points are of special importance: the truncated appropriation of Kittler's 'middle period' by American academics; the structural and ideological reasons for the failure of North American German Studies to capitalize on the growing interest in Kittler; the charges of technodeterminism; and Kittler's difficult role in the debate over posthumanism.

'In diesem Aufsatz geht es um die Rekonstruktion der Anfänge der Alternate History (bzw. der Alternativwelt-Geschichte), einer Untergattung der Science Fiction. Ausgangspunkt ist die Überlegung, dass es sich um eine höchst unwahrscheinliche Gattung handelt, deren Erfolg auf die Erarbeitung neuer Akzeptanz- und Glaubwürdigkeitsschwellen angewiesen war. Aus evolutionärer Perspektive wird beschrieben, wie - nach einer Reihe von erfolglosen früheren Versuchen - die Entwicklung der Alternate History aus der Refunktionalisierung etablierter literarischer Handlungselemente (vor allem der Zeitreise und der Mehrfachweltenhypothese) hervorging. Eine interessante Konsequenz dieser Evolution war der erneute Austausch zwischen Geschichtsschreibung und allohistorischer Fiktion.' (Autorenreferat)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction. Cultural Techniques, or, the End of the Intellectual Postwar in German Media Theory -- 1. Cacography or Communication ? -- 2. Eating Animals-Eating God-Eating Man -- 3. Parlêtres -- 4. Medusas of the Western Pacific -- 5. Pasajeros a Indias -- 6. (Not) in Place -- 7. White Spots and Hearts of Darkness -- 8. Waterlines -- 9. Figures of Self-Reference -- 10. Door Logic , or , the Materiality of the Symbolic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- index