The Kultur of Cultural Techniques: Conceptual Inertia and the Parasitic Materialities of Ontologization

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young teaches in the German and Scandinavian programs at the University of British Columbia. Among his most recent publications are Kittler and the Media (2011), a Theory, Culture, and Society special issue on cultural techniques (2013; coedited with Jussi Parikka and Ilinca Iurascu), and the translation of Bernhard Siegert’s Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (2014).