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Operation Valhalla : writings on war, weapons, and media / Friedrich Kittler ; edited and translated by Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, and Michael Wutz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kittler, Friedrich A., author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Communication and technology--Philosophy.
- Communication and technology.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Technology--Social aspects--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- War (Philosophy).
- Weapons--Philosophy.
- Weapons.
- Philosophy.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 297 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Guns, Germans and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War
- Free ways
- A Short History of the Searchlight
- Fragments of a History of Firearms
- Tanks
- Wires, Waves and Wagner
- Noises of War
- Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama
- Operation Valhalla
- When the Blitzkrieg Raged
- Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads
- Animals of War
- On Modern Warfare. A Conversation with Alexander Kluge
- Of States and Their Terrorists
- Love and War
- Manners of Death in War
- Ottilie Hauptmann
- Pynchon's War
- On a Novel that Would Not Only Be Fiction
- De Nostalgia
- Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
- Kittler on Kittler
- Biogeography
- Theology.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kittler, Friedrich A. Essays. Selections. Operation Valhalla.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013181
- 1478013184
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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