“Well, What Socks Is Pynchon Wearing Today?” A Freiburg Scrapbook in Memory of Friedrich Kittler

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young is professor of German in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). Among his recent publications are Kittler and the Media (2011) and the afterword to the new translation of Jakob von Uexküll's A Foray into the World of Animals and Humans (2010). He is currently working on German posthumanism and the concept of cultural techniques and completing a translation of Eva Horn's The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (forthcoming).