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Operation Valhalla - Writings on War, Weapons, and Media (Paperback) Loot Price: R724
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Operation Valhalla - Writings on War, Weapons, and Media (Paperback): Friedrich Kittler

Operation Valhalla - Writings on War, Weapons, and Media (Paperback)

Friedrich Kittler; Edited by Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey Winthrop Young, Michael Wutz

Series: A Cultural Politics book

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Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary analyses, and autobiographical musings, Kittler outlines how war has been a central driver of media's evolution, from Prussia's wars against Napoleon to the so-called War on Terror. Covering an eclectic array of topics, he charts the intertwined military and theatrical histories of the searchlight and the stage lamp, traces the microprocessor's genealogy back to the tank, shows how rapid-fire guns brought about new standards for optics and acoustics, and reads Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to upset established claims about the relationship between war, technology, and history in the twentieth century. Throughout, Operation Valhalla foregrounds the outsize role of war in media history as well as Kittler's importance as a daring and original thinker.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: A Cultural Politics book
Release date: April 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Friedrich Kittler
Editors: Ilinca Iurascu • Geoffrey Winthrop Young • Michael Wutz
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1184-2
Categories: Books
LSN: 1-4780-1184-X
Barcode: 9781478011842

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