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Operation Valhalla : Writings on War, Weapons, and Media /
Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | A Cultural Politics Book
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Editors' Preface
- Introduction: The Wars of Friedrich Kittler
- Part I: Guns, Germans, and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War
- 1 Free Ways
- 2 A Short History of the Searchlight
- 3 Fragments of a History of Firearms
- 4 Tanks
- Part II: Wires, Waves, and Wagner
- 5 Noises of War
- 6 Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama 91
- 7 Operation Valhalla
- 8 When the Blitzkrieg Raged
- Part III: Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads
- 9 Animals of War: A Historical Bestiary
- 10 On Modern Warfare: A Conversation with Alexander Kluge
- 11 Of States and Their Terrorists
- Part IV: Love and War
- 12 Manners of Death in War
- 13 Ottilie Hauptmann
- Part V: Pynchon's War
- 14 On a Novel That Would Not Only Be Fiction
- 15 De Nostalgia
- 16 Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
- Part VI: Kittler on Kittler
- 17 Biogeography
- 18 Theology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits