The Digital Dionysus
Subtitle: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition
Publisher: punctum books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Earth, Milky Way
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780692270790
Subjects: Media studies
Description: Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a ?herald and precursor? of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study ? let alone an anthology ? that re-assesses and re-evaluates Nietzsche?s thought in light of the technically mediated and machinic conditions of the human in the age of digital networks.
Notes: English.