Friedrich Kittler

Friedrich Kittler was an influential literary scholar and media theorist whose work redefined media studies from the 1980s onwards. Kittler focused on the autonomous logic of technologies, arguing that media are not mere extensions of humanity but follow their own developmental trajectories. His provocative arguments, which linked technological conditions to epistemology and ontology, often emphasized that existence itself is bound to what is switchable or controllable. Employing a mix of polemic, erudition, and humor, he posited that technology forms the fundamental basis of human knowledge and being.