The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition

by Dan Mellamphy

Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a "herald and precursor" of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study - let...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692270795
• ISBN13: 9780692270790
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"