Friedrich A. Kittler
Discourse Networks
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Works Cited
Index of Persons
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Foreword
DAVID E. WELLBERY
Pose Hermeneutic Criticism
Fashion, Goong Simpl once remarked x dainguished from hiscory
bythe fac that changes are witht subance, Whether es re hick
cor thin calles loese or buttoned down, sets no preconditions for subse
‘quent development excep forthe empry or nonstbstantal one that what
fellows be diferent. Aeration of ‘athion are without consequence,
tee signal of the new, emp of emergence. The remck is 3 sor of
ideologies eryal tha atembles theta oop of ou fasion talk—
surface vers depth, sin vers meaning, semblance vere Revoanes,
Fepetion versus growth int syametrallyaposed faces i
Murs a code reduces the already 3d, the aleeady thought the always
Already know, 0 the bounded framework ofa sentence, Hence ise
‘entay fre, set of perceptual media.
“The axolgy at work n Simmel apera has recently become audible
in the decuston of pose stuctralism within American crs, With
Increasing frequency one heats or reads the csi the farbon of post:
strocturalsm hs won thin ike last years coat), has lost ts appeal, no
longer in. The ingnoss betrays, Iblis» good dsl about the pesent
sate of crea discussion in the United States. The claim tht por
‘eracturalism going oo syle serves o contain inthe racial ene of
{he em the darupave and erasformasve penal of porestactralist
‘thought, to render iconsequential The prognosis of demise i 8 wish
fullimeneancasy: te wish, presi that port stucralism made (and
makes) 9 real diference, cat intervention on the American erica