Radical Post-humanism: Friedrich Kittler and the Primacy of Technology

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 25-41

  Gane, Nicholas ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cybernetics; information; materiality; post human; power; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744442397     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276405053718     Document Type: Article

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