Friedrich Kittler. Computing, Ubiquity and The One Single Medium 2010 1/5 (Day 3)

www.egs.eduFriedrich Kittler talking about computers as prescient knowledge, distributing cognition and information, feedback, cybernetics and computing power. Kittler emphasizes the chemical over the physical, and speaks of how our knowledge of the world is known first by our machines, as in the case of the weather. There is only one "media," that of the computer, there are no "new media" in the plural. Creating the computer world "out of nothing," Bill Gates is compared to the Christian God, viewing systems development and organization from the highest level, top down. Google signals the transfer of programmatic processing from software to the network, and histories of the networks themselves reiterates Kittler’s model of for the march of technology seeded by conflict, war and the military, and subsequently filtering into commerce, institutions and then to "us", the social/political body. Lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Friedrich Kittler. Friedrich Adolf Kittler, Ph.D., (b. 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony) is a literary scientist and media theorist. His research and work is focused on media, history, communications, technology, and the military. Friedrich Kittler studied German Studies, Romance Languages and Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg/Breisgau. In 1976, he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and became ...

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