Friedrich kittlers media theory have already been examined and critically assessed many times. The term german media theory itself is quite unsuccesful as it suggest a too homonegeous and unified national media theoretical discourse. Kittler friedrich optical media pdf martin heidegger. It is breezy, has an offthecuff tone, and is generally free of the distinctive, pithy, and forbidding prose style that is sometimes called kittlerdeutsch. Friedrich kittlers lecture series provides a concise history of optical media from renaissance linear perspective to late twentiethcentury computer graphics.
His family fled with him to west germany in 1958, where from 1958 to 1963 he went to a natural sciences and modern languages gymnasium in lahr in the black forest, and thereafter, until 1972, he studied german studies, romance philology and philosophy at the albert ludwigs university of freiburg in freiburg im breisgau. Friedrich kittler 19432011 was a literary and media scientist medienwissenschaftler. Kittler june 12, october 18, was a literary scholar and a media theorist. In order to complicate the notion of a visual world universally constituted by light, this article undertakes an archaeology of light as a medium in china, where the discoveries of the polymath mo di. This course examines the history of communication technologies in their social and cultural contexts, with an emphasis on the development of. It starts out with a clear presentation of kittlers mediatheoretical premises and then offers a fascinating tour through the history of storing, manipulating and projecting light.
The rationale for this, while never stated explicitly, is that optical media are those that create images that do not disappear in. Optical media article about optical media by the free. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media. He begins by looking at european painting since the renaissance in order to discern the principles according. Download one of the free kindle apps to start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Kittlers media materialism is explored through four main influences.
As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject to head crashes or corruption from stray magnetic fields. Kittler optical media ebook download 4 aug anyhow, it took several years anyway before it came out in english friedrich kittler s optical media polity press, orig. The role that programming plays in kittlers media theory is in no way somehow a. This volume collects writings from all stages of the authors prolific career. Friedrich kittler is influential in the new approach to media theory that grew popular starting in the s, new media german. Friedrich kittler the history of communication media. According to kittlers media history, optical media faced their end with the. This form of optical disc was a very early form of the dvd u.
Friedrich kittler s lecture series provides a concise history of optical media from renaissance linear perspective to late twentiethcentury computer graphics. Analog media and opticaltechnological media in particular kittler. We focus on the algorithmic procedures and mathematical principles driving 3d computer graphics during the 1970s and we frame them in a discussion about the end of optical media and a reflection on the current situation in which images, commanded by technocodes, delineate and. German idealism, the gothic novel, and optical media, stefan andriopoulos investigates the recurring and polyvalent references to the ghostly and phantasmagoric across a wide variety of media and discursive fields between 1750 and 1930. He begins by looking at european painting since the renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organised. By jussi parikka winchester school of art, university of southampton. Friedrich kittler is one of the leading figures in german media theory today. But does kittler claim that writing is more symbolic than photographs, gramophones, computers. Kittler, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Kittler optical media ebook download 4 aug anyhow, it took several years anyway before it came out in english friedrich kittlers optical media polity press, orig. Soon people will be connected to a communication channel which can be used for any kind of media. Kittler gramophone pdf gramophone, film, typewriter. As friedrich kittler has shown in optical media, there is a historical tendency to employ technical media as models or metaphors for imagining the human or the soul. Kittler june 12, 1943 october 18, 2011 was a literary scholar and a media. Between and he worked as ftiedrich assistant at the universitys deutsches seminar. A short introduction to ideas in the first chapter of friedrich kittler s optical media. Kittler also discusses the development of various mechanical. Friedrich adolf kittler was born in 1943 in rochlitz in saxony. Kittler optische medien pdf get this from a library. Kittler also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, like. This is one reason the lectures are on optical and not visual media.
Friedrich kittler a media anthropology without the man. This media archaeology of early computer graphics tackles the relation between the imaginary and technical media. His research focused on technical media technischen medien and cultural techniques kulturtechniken. Aesthetic properties are always only dependent variables of technological feasibility. An early optical disc system existed in 1935, named lichttonorgel. Kittler never had a chair for media studies, but for. The optical media, having changed western culturenot coincidentallysimul. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Optical media is the most engaging and accessible of friedrich kittlers books. It starts out with a clear presentation of kittlersmediatheoretical premises and then offers a fascinating tour through the history of storing, manipulating and projecting light. Friedrich kittler the history of communication media in this article, friedrich kittler attempts to give a detailed but also brief account of the history of communication media, which he analyses in terms of, and compares to, information systems. Friedrich kittler was a literary scholar and a media theorist. Kittler friedrich optical media pdf martin heidegger mass media.
It stores data digitally on a media device and uses a laser to read data from it. Optical media is the most engaging and accessible of friedrich kittler s books. Optical media provides an accessible introduction to the media theory of kittlers middle period as it applies primar ily to the optical realm. For it seems to be precisely this exorbitant capacity that elevates the medium of the computer above all optical media in western history. Pdf kittler and the media download full pdf book download. Computer graphics and the end of optical media researchgate. Pdf download kittler and the media free ebooks pdf.
It starts out with a clear presentation of kittler smediatheoretical premises and then offers a fascinating tour through the history of storing, manipulating and projecting light. On friedrich kittlers conception of media userpage. Memory capacity before optical and acoustic storage media, words and books strongly connected to. As optical media puts it in one of those reductive dicta for which kittler is famous.
Kittler and the media is informed, lucid, and entertaining. This evolutionary process gives us the possibility of dividing the history of communication media into two main blocks. Kittler wrote media theory with heidegger, but also with pynchon. Optical media may be friedrich kittlers best book for the uniniti ated. As the media theorist friedrich kittler pointed out, photography enabled this new, modern culture of visuality, because it was the first medium to store visual data and to make it transmissible. Media studies, as kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate as films, poetry as computer science, and music as military equipment. Communication media, see kittler, 1996 rather than the technologies of television pp.
The video is an accompaniment to discussions in media. Optical media available for download and read online in other formats. Winthropyoung is a world expert writing in both english and german on the work of friedrich kittler and i expect this book to become the englishlanguage virgil for kittlers selva oscura. In the age of handwriting and of the printing press, all forms of writing are bound up in a symbolic universe which in its most basic. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Optical media provides an accessible introduction to the media theory of kittler s middle period as it applies primar ily to the optical realm.
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