Optical Media

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745640907

>From Friedrich Kittler, Optical Media: Berlin Lectures 1999 (trans.
Anthony Enns, Malden, MA: Polity, 2010), "Preface," pp. 19-28:

"And when one considers that contemporary novelists like Thomas
Pynchon (who will play the role of a principal witness for film and
television in these lectures) have had all photographs of themselves
destroyed, it is possible to measure the abyss between literature and
optical media." (p. 23)

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=50684

Kittler, Friedrich.  "Medien und Drogen in Pynchons Zweitem Weltkrieg."
    Die unvollendete Vernunft: Moderne versus Postmoderne.
    Frankfurt: Frankfurt am Main, 1987

___________.  "Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War."
    Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology.
    Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997.

___________. "Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War."
    Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays.
    Ed. John Johnston.  Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54010

Also ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0705&msg=118265