Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 P Friedrich A
Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 p Friedrich A. Kittler Discourse Networks 1800 /1900 TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL METTEER, WITH CHRIS CULLENS FOREWORD BY DAVID E. WELLBERY STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA / l T -4 0 Assistance for the translation was provided by Inter Nationes Discourse Networks, i8oo/ipoo was originally published in German in 1985 as Aufscbreibesysteme 1800/ipoo, © 1985,1987 Wilhelm Fink Verlag. The Foreword has been prepared specially for this edition by David E. Wellbery. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California © 1990 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America Original printing 1990 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 CIP data appear at the end of the book q t Contents Foreword vii I. 1800 The Scholar’s Tragedy: Prelude in the Theater 3 THE MOTHER’S MOUTH 2-5 Learning to Read in 1800, 27. Motherliness and Civil Service, 53. LANGUAGE CHANNELS 70 The Im-possibility of Translations, 70. “The Golden Pot,” 77. Authors, Readers, Authors, 108. T H E T O A S T 124 Function: Feminine Reader . , 124. and the Kingdom of God, 148. II. 1900 Nietzsche: Incipit Tragoedia 177 THE GREAT LALULA 206 Psychophysics, 206. Technological Media, 229. Vi CONTENTS R E B U S 265 Untranslatability and the Transposition of Media, 265. Psychoanalysis and Its Shadow, 273. A Simulacrum of Madness, 304. QUEEN’S SACRIFICE 347 Afterword to the Second Printing 3 69 Notes 375 Works Cited 419 Index o f Persons 449 Foreword DAVID E. WELLBERY Post-Hermeneutic Criticism Fashion, Georg Simmel once remarked, is distinguished from history by the fact that its changes are without substance.
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