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The Kittler Effect

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 205–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162322
Published: 01 November 2017
...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This article traces the North American reception of “German media theory,” especially the work of Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011). The construction of Kittler's work abroad is marked by truncations and targeted appropriations related as much to the breaks and discontinuities...
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Between Benjamin and McLuhan: Vilém Flusser's Media Theory

Sjoukje van der Meulen
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 180–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-010
Published: 01 August 2010
... and is often mentioned in the same breath as that of Friedrich Kittler, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski. Yet Flusser’s work is hardly known in the United States. One obvious reason—the reason, according to Zielinski, the director of the Flusser Archiv in Berlin—is that only a few of Flusser’s books...
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The Schreber Case Revisited: Realpolitik and Writing in the Asylum

Erik Butler
New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 171–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-007
Published: 01 August 2008
..., Slavs, and his fi rst doctor, Professor Paul Emil Flechsig, try- ing to effect his personal ruin. Friedrich Kittler and Eric Santner have studied how Schreber’s delusions refract modernization. Kittler observes that Flechsig was his generation’s fore- most advocate of materialist theories...
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Mabuse Returns: Fritz Lang, 1950s Berlin, and the Afterlife of Nazi Television

Brook Henkel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734861
Published: 01 August 2022
... radio transmitters, and a mobile surveillance van amounts to a shadow media system existing alongside and disrupting the publicly sanctioned channels of broadcast news and police radio while enabling his terrorist plot. 36 In this regard, The Thousand Eyes anticipates Friedrich Kittler’s...
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Introduction: Hans Blumenberg at 101

Hannes Bajohr
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 1–9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439587
Published: 01 February 2022
... Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the Frankfurt School, or even Niklas Luhmann and Friedrich Kittler—Blumenberg’s has gathered momentum only slowly. This special issue aims to contribute to its acceleration and place Blumenberg’s insights into dialogue with contemporary discourses. While the erudition...
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“The Time of That Other Interpretation”: Gesture, Symptom, and Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Wayne Stables
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 165–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9305533
Published: 01 November 2021
... be read? When Friedrich Kittler turns to the scene just discussed, his answer leaves little room for doubt: “It is not a question of the so-called jerk-tic’s portrayal by Rainer Maria Rilke . . . but of its simulation by Malte Laurids Brigge: in the description Brigge follows his mad subject, takes on his...
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Love, Popular Music, and “Technologies of Gender” in Karen Duve's Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This Is Not a Love Song)

Alison Lewis, Andrew W. Hurley
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 113–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434524
Published: 01 February 2012
... to which “media determine our situation” (Friedrich A. Kittler) and how this new data storage medium has further affected what Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz call the erstwhile “monopoly of writing.”5 While our observations may be specific to Duve’s protagonist and to her generation...
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Intermittent Legitimacy: Hans Blumenberg and Artificial Intelligence

Leif Weatherby
New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9439601
Published: 01 February 2022
.... 41 The most influential rejection of that thesis is that of Friedrich Kittler, who suggests that technologies have their own logic, establishing a nonhuman set of a priori conditions. 42 To see technology as extending or replacing human needs or functions is to miss the vocation of technology...
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Searching for a Storyteller, Remediating the Archive: Philip Scheffner’s Halfmoon Files

Olivia Landry
New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 103–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7727441
Published: 01 November 2019
.... As Friedrich Kittler reminds us, the phonograph and the kinetoscope evolved from Thomas Edison’s same 1877 invention, but the latter in many ways rendered the former obsolete, and listening became subsumed by vision. 43 Through the act of remediation, the ghost of the abandoned medium is revived to proclaim...
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The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image

Stefan Andriopoulos
New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 151–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-014
Published: 01 November 2006
... lm, ed. Ludwig Grewe, Margot Pehle, and Heidi Westhoff (Stuttgart: Klett, 1976), 111–12. 42. In his insightful essay “Romanticism—Psychoanalysis—Film,” in Literature, Media, Infor- mation Systems (Amsterdam: G + B Arts International, 1997), Friedrich Kittler has already empha- sized...
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Occult Conspiracies: Spirits and Secret Societies in Schiller's Ghost Seer

Stefan Andriopoulos
New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 65–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2007-019
Published: 01 February 2008
... of the sublime.” 34. “Ein überirdisches Wesen” (G 720/78); the equivalence between the spirit apparition in the fi rst part and the apparition of the Greek woman in the second part is also emphasized by Friedrich Kittler, “Die Laterna magica der Literatur: Schillers und Hoffmanns Medienstrategien...
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What Was Theory? Toward a Generic History

Philipp Felsch
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 5–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162202
Published: 01 November 2017
... . 2008 . “Elucubrations: The ‘Marxism’ of Louis Althusser.” In Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century , 106 – 15 . New York : Penguin . Kittler Friedrich A. 1979 . “Vergessen.” In Texthermeneutik: Aktualität, Geschichte, Kritik , edited by Nassen Ulrich...
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Narratives of Theory Transfer

Anna Kinder
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 21–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162214
Published: 01 November 2017
..., there is an increase of footnotes over the years, which Stevens and Wil- liams discerned as a trend that “can be traced in part to the increasing profes- sionalization of the humanities.”31 Second, there seem to be some trends, like Friedrich Kittler or Siegfried Kracauer, and exceptions like the number...
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Memory and Repetition: Reenactment as an Affirmative Critical Practice

Susanne Knittel
New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 171–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7546234
Published: 01 August 2019
.... In his foreword to Friedrich Kittler’s Discourse Networks , David Wellbery outlines the three core components of what he terms “post-hermeneutic criticism.” The first of these is the “presupposition of exteriority,” whereby the task of criticism “is not to reabsorb the scattered utterances...
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Verfehlungen : Hans Blumenberg and the United States

Paul Fleming
New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 105–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162262
Published: 01 November 2017
... German Critique—other than Habermas (who profited enormously from the legacy of the Frankfurt School and the time he himself spent in the United States) and Friedrich Kittler in media studies, what German intellectual whose career clearly comes after World War II did make it in the English...
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The Trail, the Archive, the Museum, and the Book: Confronting Materiality in Literary Studies

Jacob Haubenreich
New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 141–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8607647
Published: 01 November 2020
... deconstruction of logos and recovery of the materiality of the signifier from its suppression within modern semiotic paradigms. 21 Three decades have passed since the publication of Friedrich Kittler’s seminal work of media theory, Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (1985). Around the same time, D. F...
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Fragile Matters: Literature and the Scene of Torture

Isabel Capeloa Gil
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329223
Published: 01 February 2016
... of signs. Yet, unlike Pilate, the reader is instructed by the Gospel to navigate the forest of meaning to discern the true sense of the word. For Pilate, a right- ful forerunner of Friedrich Nietzsche’s and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Chan- dos, truth is reduced to a clause, a pile of words meaning nothing...
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