Gegen den Tag

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Jan 29 08:18:42 CST 2008


Don't get me wrong, Otto. I like Kittler, too, and enjoyed
his contributions to the discussion very much. It is just 
that I personally would have preferred a little more 
literary criticism in the narrower meaning of the word. 
For example, are the mathematics in AtD merely elements of 
the novel's plot, or do they also have an influence on its 
structure? Perhaps similar to the Iceland Spar which, 
apart from its historical significance, seems to work as 
some kind of metaphor with regard to the profusion of 
doubles, mirror images, Doppelgaenger etc. in AtD? This 
kind of stuff.

Just off of the top of my head.

Thomas



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