Friedrich Kittler's computer wars
When Friedrich Kittler, the German philosopher of media and technology, died in October this year, it wasn’t a big international story – in fact, the Guardian published the only obituary in the Anglophone press.
In Germany Kittler’s death made bigger waves: for weeks, newspapers published memorials and testimonials. The philosopher had generations of disciples and accolytes who compare the importance of his work to that of Hegel and Heidegger. Kittler, they say, was the first thinker to grasp the true nature of our relationship with modern technology and media. Typewriters, radios, computers: these innovations were not extentions of man, but they defined us and our behaviour.
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Pledge Drive - Christmas Rhapsody
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Watch a little girl get pissed off at gender specific toy colors. (via hellogiggles)
Awesome…but she sure is manhandling that Fred doll.
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This is how you kill a crowd. Literally.
Someone called me late last night and asked if I knew who the killer in Animal House was. I think it was this guy.
Thankfully, I knew it was a trick question.
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I was looking up instructions for this client on how to use Powerpoint. When I typed in ‘How to’ into his search bar, the drop box came up with ‘How to forge a university degree’ and ‘How to make a university degree from template’. He was a financial advisor! Yikes.
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“On the back of your ID card, you can sign away your organs, so it seems like you should be able to sign away your intellectual property.” Evan Roth, artist and F.A.T. Lab member.
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Just getting my head together about a few things...
