Friedrich Adolf Kittler (June 12, 1943 – October 18, 2011) was a literary scholar and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military.

Oct 25, 2011 · Kittler, who wrote his PhD on the poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, was not beyond Heidegger's shadow. He took from Heidegger the idea that we are at risk of being eclipsed by …

Friedrich Kittler (1943-2011) was a literary and media scientist [Medienwissenschaftler]. His research focused on technical media [Technischen Medien] and cultural techniques …

Kittler is an innovative and hard to define theorist, who has pushed theoretical works of literary scholars into technological fields with unprecedented modes of critical thought. Through his …

Dec 1, 2006 · Considered one of the most important contemporary theorists in his native Germany, Friedrich Kittler (b. 1943) is best known for his concept of “discourse networks,” …

Jan 31, 2017 · Kittler details the first mediums of communication and information storage in the “Script” period – manual writing and copying – starting with transportable writing surfaces such …

Jun 9, 2015 · This e-Special Issue of Theory, Culture & Society focuses on the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler’s (1943–2011) impact across the field of humanities. By including …

The introduction provides a short outline of Kittler’s biographical background and briefly discusses the stages of his work: The initial discourse-analytical stage of the late 1970s that centered …

Friedrich Kittler was born on June 12, 1943 in Rochlitz/Saxony. He fled the German Democratic Republic in 1958 to West Germany, where he attended secondary school 1958-63 in …

Obituary ‘Switch off all apparatuses’ Friedrich Adolf Kittler, 1943–2011 It is a mark of how far Kittler’s reputation had spread in the English-speaking world that he had acquired his own …