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The Disappearance of Literature: Friedrich Kittler's Path to Media Theory

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Thesis Eleven, 107 (1): 47--52 (2011)
DOI: 10.1177/0725513611418032

Abstract

This article follows the recurrent theme in Friedrich Kittler's 40 years of prolific academic writing, which is of course the media-related production of discourse. Five heuristic principles are identified in his work: enabling, reduction, historization, the abolishment of the 'two cultures', and post-hermeneutics. The paper closes with criticism of the intrinsic limits of Kittler's point of view.

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