Friedrich Kittler Quotes
1943–2011 Germany
Friedrich A. Kittler (June 12, 1943 – October 18, 2011) was a literary scholar and a media theorist.
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Printed laments over the death of Man or the subject always arrive too late.
Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1985)
It has become clear that real wars are fought not for people or fatherlands, but take place between different media, information technologies, data flows.
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1986)
Nur was schaltbar ist, ist überhaupt. [Only that which is switchable, exists.]
Dracula's Legacy (1982)
What is at stake is that we finally—and in the interest of Europe—go back to the Greeks in order to provide Europe with a viable foundation of thought.
Ever since IF-THEN commands ceased to be a privilege of the human being, all philosophical debates about the death of the subject have been settled, simply because weapons have become subjects themselves.
The only kind of politics I am interested in is military politics, to begin with. In fact, this is the only thing I can think of when one says politics.
[Discourse network is ] The network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data.
Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1985)
Take the concept of media from there – in a step also beyond McLuhan – to where it is most at home: the field of physics in general and telecommunications in particular
Optical media (2010)
Storing information and transmitting information without having to employ such obscure instances as the human ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’: such is the very definition of media.
There is no software
From a 2002 interview. Quoted in Winkler, Robert A. ""Alle Apparate abschalten." Conceiving Love and Technology with Heidegger And Kittler." (2020).
there are no such things as thoughts. There are only words.