{"product_id":"operation-valhalla-9781478010715","title":"Operation Valhalla","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOperation Valhalla\u003c\/i\u003e collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The preeminent thinker of media in the past half century, Friedrich Kittler speaks to deep concerns of the digital age in a voice that is philosophical, wry, learned, obscure, indirect, profound, and always stimulating. To read him is to have your neurons rearranged. Kittler’s work is essential.” -- John Durham Peters, coauthor of * Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History *\u003cbr\u003e“As demonstrated by his famous mapping of the three media operations—recording, transmitting, processing—onto ‘trenches,’ ‘blitz,’ and Ronald Reagan's Star Wars, war for Friedrich Kittler was the principle that drove media history. Although a provocation for whiggish as well as for critical thinking that found the telos of media history in humanity's progress toward democracy or capitalism's perversion of democracy, Kittler's highly original approach to media analysis opened up a road to a posthumanistic theory of media which has never been more timely than today.” -- Bernhard Siegert, author of * Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOperation Valhalla \u003c\/i\u003eis the best resource available for understanding the central role of warfare in Kittler’s thought and an all too relevant book for our troubled times.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Anders Engberg-Pedersen * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor's Preface \/ Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, and Michael Wutz  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Wars of Friedrich Kittler \/ Geoffrey Winthrop-Young  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Guns, Germans, and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War\u003cbr\u003e 1. Free Ways (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)   53\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Short History of the Searchlight (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fragments of a History of Firearms (Translated by Michael Wutz)  69\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tanks (Translated by Michael Wutz)  73\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Wires, Waves, and Wagner\u003cbr\u003e 5. Noises of War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  79\u003cbr\u003e 6. Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama (Translated by Michael Wutz)  91\u003cbr\u003e 7. Operation Valhalla (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  110\u003cbr\u003e 8. When the Blitzkrieg Raged (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  117\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads\u003cbr\u003e 9. Animals of War: A Historical Bestiary (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  123\u003cbr\u003e 10. On Modern Warfare: A Conversation with Alexander Kluge (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  127\u003cbr\u003e 11. Of States and Their Terrorists (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  136\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Love and War\u003cbr\u003e 12. Manners of Death in War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  151\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ottilie Hauptmann (Translated by Ilinca Iurascu)  166\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Pynchon's War\u003cbr\u003e 14. On a Novel That Would Not Only Be Fiction . . . (Translated by Michael Wutz)  193\u003cbr\u003e 15. De Nostalgia (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  198\u003cbr\u003e 16. Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  211\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Kittler on Kittler\u003cbr\u003e 17. Biogeography (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  227\u003cbr\u003e 18. Theology (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  233\u003cbr\u003e Notes  235\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  273\u003cbr\u003e Index  287\u003cbr\u003e Credits  295\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408989036887,"sku":"9781478010715","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010715.jpg?v=1730504986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/operation-valhalla-9781478010715","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}