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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.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2021 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kittler, Friedrich A., author.
Contributor:
Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960- editor.
Wutz, Michael, editor.
Iurascu, Ilinca, editor, translator.
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.
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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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