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 Draculäs 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;

This volume is a collection of public writings and insights of the German post-structuralist, Friedrich A. Kittler. It merges the discourse of literature, war and technology into a unified theme. His research results in a vision of the future in which the distinction between mediums is erased.

Friedrich A. Kittler, John Johnston