media theory

Target practice with Relays and Keys (anti-aircraft computer built from telephone relays). Advertisement. 1945. Bell Telephone Laboratories. From Popular Science.

The Cybernetic Apparatus: Media, Liberalism, and the Reform of the Human Sciences

Proquest had the gall to ask me for a fee to distribute my dissertation. A bit miffed, I thought I'd rather post it online myself, which I've done here:

Dissertation PDF

I welcome any comments or suggestions by email. If you don't have the time to leisurely read 250 pages at this moment, here's a brief abstract:

Bernard Stiegler, Mark Hansen, and WJT Mitchell on Friedrich Kittler (Episode 7)

Bernard Stiegler

Another Cultural Technologies Bootleg: This episode features a chat among French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen, and literary critic W. J. T. Mitchell on the work of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler, following which Stiegler muses about time, technology, love, and death in the age of electronic media. And Hansen chimes in about Amazon algorithms stalking his desires. (Original recording took place in Mark Hansen's and W. J. T. Mitchell's 2004 media theory course at the University of Chicago.)

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