After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413488962

After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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Abstract

This paper offers a brief introduction and interpretation of recent research on cultural techniques (or Kulturtechnikforschung) in German media studies. The analysis considers three sites of conceptual dislocations that have shaped the development and legacy of media research often associated with theorist Friedrich Kittler: first,the displacement of 1980s and 1990s Kittlerian media theory towards a more praxeological style of analysis in the early 2000s; second, the philological background that allowed the antiquated German appellation for agricultural engineering,Kulturtechniken, to migrate into media and cultural studies; and third, the role of these conceptual dislocations in enriching media-genealogical inquiries into topics such as life, biopolitics, and practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66-82
Journal	Theory, Culture & Society
Volume	30
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413488962
Publication status	Published - Dec 2013

Keywords

media theory
German media theory
media archaeology
Friedrich Kittler
cultural techniques
Kulturtechniken

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