The Truth of the Technological World: Essays on the Genealogy of Presence

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Poet, Mother, Child : On The Romantic Invention Of Sexuality -- Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Lullaby Of Birdland -- The God Of The Ears -- Flechsig/schreber/freud : An Information-network At The Turn Of The Century -- Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, Film : A Story Of Doubles -- Media And Drugs In Pynchon's Second World War -- Heinrich Von Ofterdingen As Data-feed -- World-breath : On Wagner's Media Technology -- The City Is A Medium -- Rock Music, A Misuse Of Military Equipment -- Signal-to-noise Ratio -- The Artificial Intelligence Of World War : Alan Turing -- Unconditional Surrender -- Protected Mode -- There Is No Software -- Il Fiore Delle Truppe Scelte -- Eros And Aphrodite -- Homer And Writing -- The Alphabet Of The Greeks : On The Archeology Of Writing -- In The Wake Of The Odyssey -- Martin Heidegger, Media, And The Gods Of Greece : De-severance Heralds The Approach Of The Gods -- Pathos And Ethos : An Aristotelian Observation -- Media History As The Event Of Truth : On The Singularity Of Friedrich A. Kittler's Works / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Friedrich A. Kittler ; [edited And] With An Afterword By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; Translated By Erik Butler. Originally Published In German In 2013 Under The Title Die Wahrheit Der Technischen Welt. A Collection Of Twenty-three Essays Which Appeared Between 1978 And 2010. Includes Bibliographical References.