Friedrich Kittler Quotes
Friedrich Adolf Kittler was a German literary scholar and media theorist and one of the principal architects of the German tradition of media philosophy. After studies at Freiburg in the orbit of post-structuralist French thought, he held chairs at Bochum and the Humboldt University of Berlin and produced a long series of studies in which the technical conditions of media, from alphabetic writing through phonography, film, and the digital computer, are taken to determine the conditions of thought, literature, and subjectivity. The quotes below are attributed to Friedrich Kittler, organized by topic.
Friedrich Kittler on Knowledge
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Attributed to Friedrich Kittler:
“The history of philosophy is also the history of writing instruments.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Kittler:
“There is no information without a medium.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Kittler:
“Discourse networks are the conditions of every discipline.”
Friedrich Kittler on Mind
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Attributed to Friedrich Kittler:
“What we are able to think depends on what our technology allows us to record.”
Friedrich Kittler on Truth
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Attributed to Friedrich Kittler:
“Media determine our situation.”