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From a 2002 interview. Quoted in Winkler, Robert A. ""Alle Apparate abschalten." Conceiving Love and Technology with Heidegger And Kittler." (2020).

— Friedrich Kittler

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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.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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