RHETOR 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Wax Paper, Jacques Lacan, Death Drive
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Nietzsche: (cid:498)our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts(cid:499) Relation between styles of thinking and the equipment which with we write. 1943-2011, media theorist and historian of media technology and cultural. Invented filed of (cid:498)media archaeology(cid:499) (cid:498)driving the spirit out of the humanities(cid:499) (title of a programmatic collection of. Prove to the human sciences their technological media a priori. Freud"s death drive: auto destructive way to doing things over and over again. Lacan: there is a drive for repetition, but not individual, but a thing of culture. Language that you read in texts is informed by different level of language underneath it. Kittler: (cid:498)what remains of people is what media can store and communicate. What counts are not the messages of the content, but rather their circuits, the very schemastism of perceptibility. Content of communications does not matter, just observe how people communicate based on transformation of technology. Inscription leaves some trace on the wax layer.
