[Hi folks, here is the official blurb on the Kittler event at the ICA.
John.]
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Way Back to Culture
Wednesday 22nd November
Theatre 8pm
£10/£8/£6
One of the major thinkers on culture and new media Professor Friedrich
Kittler, discusses changes in our understanding of technology and culture in
a talk ranging from cultural studies to today's computer culture, from Alan
Turing to the history of engineers.
Friedrich Kittler is professor of Aesthetics and History of Media at Berlin
University; his books include Discourse Networks 1800/1900 and Gramophone,
Film, Typewriter. He will be in conversation with John Armitage, Principal
Lecturer in Politics and Media Studies at the University of Northumbria in
Newcastle; he currently working on a book entitled Living with Cyberspace:
Technology and Cyberspace in the 21st Century.
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