Discourse networks 1800/1900

TL;DR: Friedrich Kittler wurde am 12. Juni 1943 in Rochlitz bei Dresden geboren as mentioned in this paper and studierte Germanistik, Romanistik und Philosophie in Freiburg, wo er 1976 with einer Arbeit uber Conrad Ferdinand Meyer promovierte.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic analysis of concepts of information found in the visual art of the Vancouver-based conceptual company N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. The company's evolving representations of sensitivity information are resolved into three distinct overlapping phases that correspond with co-president Iain Baxter's deepening engagement with Marshall McLuhan's critical information theory dur- ing the turbulent years of 1964 to 1971.

TL;DR: The distinction between the literature of technology and the history of technology should be regarded less as a stark divide than a question of perspective, which is why elements of the approaches taken by the essays here overlap with and complement those of the History of Technology more strictly speaking as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Disco's influence as a post-medium format transcended dance culture at the Loft, the Paradise Garage, or Studio 54 as mentioned in this paper and led to a host of media formats and musics in the eighties and beyond: house, ambient, electronica, hip-hop, snap, trip hop, dub, crunk, garage, hyphy and techno.