John Johnston's background combines expertise in modern literature, poststructuralist philosophy, and high technology's production. Like Kittler, he draws on historic fact, anecdote, and literature. From this vantage point he explicates the theoretical and practical consequences of Friedrich Kittler's insights into the social and psychological effects of the processes by which metaphor in one medium is made real by another.

Friedrich A. Kittler, John Johnston

Introduction by John Johnston; intro1 Friedrich Kittler: Media Theory After Poststructuralism, John Johnston; Part 1 Essays by Friedrich A. Kittler; Chapter 1a Preface to Gramophone, Film, Typewriter; Chapter 1 Gramophone, Film, Typewriter; Chapter 2 Dracula's Legacy; Chapter 3 Romanticism-Psychoanalysis-Film; Chapter 4 Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War, David Welbery; Chapter 5 Media Wars; Chapter 6 The World of the Symbolic-A World of the Machine, Sepp; Chapter 7 There is no Software; Chapter 8 Protected Mode;