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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
... GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG. All rights reserved by and controlled through Ferdinand Schoningh GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG, Paderbom 1987 homesickness Friedrich Kittler Heinrich von Kleist Thomas Pynchon Friedrich Schiller V2 rocket war Heimödil , the Old High German word from which...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
... constant army contacts, “the autobahn must not turn into mouse trap from which military vehicles cannot escape.” 5 Thus peacetime planning paves the way for Kammler’s brigades, who spent the final months of the war rushing along the autobahn to launch V2 rockets toward London and World War X + 1...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on the greatest technology transfer of all: German rocket technology—the V2—has to cross the ocean. Which prompts the question: Why were the Germans rocket pioneers? Kittler is fully aware of the great dilemma that has haunted Prussian and later German military planners for centuries. Germany has neither...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 384–390.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the electromagnetic spectrum—that is, automatically. The V2, a self-guided weapon, has replaced the classic subject; the radar beam, an invisible searchlight, the armed gaze. And because electronic warfare has moved into the domain of mathematical formulas and thus beyond all presentability, the short history...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... “black box” does not appear, rather the German coinage, “Schwarzgerät.” Pynchon's typically divergent narrative strands are threaded together in part through the hunt by various protagonists for the “Schwarzgerät,” which is revealed to be a key secret component of the German V2 rocket. 19...