The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition

Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recogniz...

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Other Authors: Mellamphy, Dan (Editor), Biswas Mellamphy, Nandita (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Earth, Milky Way punctum books 2016
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Summary:Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a "herald and precursor" of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study - let alone an anthology - that re-assesses and re-evaluates Nietzsche's thought in light of the technically mediated and machinic conditions of the human in the age of digital networks.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (286 p.)
ISBN:P3.0149.1.00
Access:Open Access