The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition
Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recogniz...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, NY
punctum books
2016
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a “herald and precursor” of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study — let alone an anthology — that re-assesses and re-evaluates Nietzsche’s thought in light of the technically mediated and machinic conditions of the human in the age of digital networks. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Physical Description: | 286 p. |
| ISBN: | P3.0149.1.00 9780692270790 |