Contributor Archive: Gill Partington
Friedrich Adolf Kittler, 1943–2011
‘Switch off all apparatuses’
by Gill Partington / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Obituary
It is a mark of how far Kittler’s reputation had spread in the English-speaking world that he had acquired his own cutely alliterative epithet: ‘the Derrida of the digital age’. It was probably an inevitable moniker for a figure who brought his own brand of poststructuralist thinking to bear on media technologies, but …
Friedrich Adolf Kittler, 1943–2011
‘Switch off all apparatuses’by Gill Partington / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Obituary
It is a mark of how far Kittler’s reputation had spread in the English-speaking world that he had acquired his own cutely alliterative epithet: ‘the Derrida of the digital age’. It was probably an inevitable moniker for a figure who brought his own brand of poststructuralist thinking to bear on media technologies, but …