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: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, NY
punctum books
2016
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (286 p.) |
| ISBN: | P3.0149.1.00 9780692270790 |
| Access: | Open Access |