{"product_id":"gramophone-film-typewriter-writing-science","title":"Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)","description":"\u003cp\u003eToward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediationall data had to pass through the needles eye of the written signifierbut phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the perception of writing from that of a unique expression of a literate individual to that of a sequence of naked material signifiers.Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these mediaincluding texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovatorsGramophone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan. Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies. The book ties the establishment of new discursive practices to the introduction of new media technologies, and it shows how both determine the ways in which psychoanalysis conceives of the psychic apparatus in terms of information machines.Gramophone, Film, Typewriter is, among other things, a continuation as well as a detailed elaboration of the second part of the authors Discourse Networks, 1800\/1900 (Stanford, 1990). As such, it bridges the gap between Kittlers discourse analysis of the 1980s and his increasingly computeroriented work of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Kittler, Friedrich A. \/ hardcover","offer_id":47842464825589,"sku":"SONG0804732329","price":204.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/A1DW0udflEL_facd403d-a30a-42d4-b465-103939a4fe22.jpg?v=1773780288","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/gramophone-film-typewriter-writing-science","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}