Gramophone, film, typewriter
By: Friedrich Kittler ; translated, with an introduction, by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz.
Series: Writing science
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Communication and technology; Communication -- History -- 19th century; Communication -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, past theoretical discussion of the responses to these media - including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators - Gramphone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan. Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, and the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-315).