whether or not we personally ever use the typewriter is not important. What is important is that all of us are thrown into the age of typewriting, wh… - Friedrich Kittler

Nur was schaltbar ist, ist überhaupt. [Only that which is switchable, exists.]

The only kind of politics I am interested in is military politics, to begin with. In fact, this is the only thing I can think of when one says politics.

I don't believe in the old thesis that the media are protheses of the body, which amounts to saying, in the beginning was the body, then came the glasses, then suddenly television, and from the television, the computer... it would be better to work, like Luhmann, systematically from the independent histories of the technological media... A history like this doesn't need individual bodies or a subject that expands in and through the media... the media, including books and the written word, develop independently from the body.