ISBN:
9781478010715
,
9781478011842
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 297 Seiten
Series Statement:
A cultural politics book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kittler, Friedrich A Operation valhalla
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Communication and technology Philosophy
;
Literature History and criticism
;
Technology Social aspects
;
Philosophy
;
War (Philosophy)
;
Weapons Philosophy
;
Krieg
;
Medientechnik
;
Geschichte 1806-2020
Abstract:
Guns, Germans and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War -- Free ways -- A Short History of the Searchlight -- Fragments of a History of Firearms -- Tanks -- Wires, Waves and Wagner -- Noises of War -- Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama -- Operation Valhalla -- When the Blitzkrieg Raged -- Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads -- Animals of War -- On Modern Warfare. A Conversation with Alexander Kluge -- Of States and Their Terrorists -- Love and War -- Manners of Death in War -- Ottilie Hauptmann -- Pynchon's War -- On a Novel that Would Not Only Be Fiction -- De Nostalgia -- Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War -- Kittler on Kittler -- Biogeography -- Theology.
Abstract:
"A collection of eighteen essays by Friedrich Kittler (many previously untranslated and several unpublished texts) written over three decades, on the close connections between war and media technology. Notwithstanding the wealth of Kittler translations, edited collections and special issues released so far, Operation Valhalla is the first volume of its kind-containing only essays that specifically address the question of war: its hardware, media, historical mutations and discursive mobilizations - from Prussia's wars against Napoleon, via the two World Wars and up to the (so-called) War on Terror"--
Note:
Includes index
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