The Sirens Go Silent - Friedrich Kittler Part 1: Opening Performance

Описание: The Sirens Go Silent: A Commemorative Colloquium for Friedrich Kittler
Organized by Avital Ronell & Arne Höcker
Deutsches Haus at NYU, March 14-16, 2013

Opening Performance:
Barely a Breath / "Kaum ein Hauch"
Remembering Friedrich Kittler

Avital Ronell
With Nimrod Reitman (Piano), Lindsay Zackeroff (Choreography) and Tycho Horan (Electronics)

Presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU, The Onassis Cultural Center NY and The Goethe-Institut New York

Sponsored by The DAAD, The Dean for the Humanities at NYU, The Department of German at NYU, The Department of Media, Culture & Communication, The Humanities Initiative at NYU and The Provost for the Arts and Humanities at NYU

The conference commemorates the scholar and the person Friedrich Kittler and celebrates his intellectual legacy by presenting talks by thirteen highly regarded and internationally recognized scholars from Germany and the United States.

A famous and iconic German thinker, Friedrich Kittler passed away in 2011 in Berlin. Some of the obituaries have stated that the German university has lost its last great figure. It is no exaggeration that Friedrich Kittler has singlehandedly revolutionized the humanities. When he declared "The Expulsion of Spirit from the Humanities" ("Die Austreibung des Geistes aus den Geisteswissenschaften") in one of his early essays, he paved the way for technology and media to enter the study of literature, art, and philosophical thought. A trained philologist and literary scholar, he founded the discipline now known as "Media Theory" and he has contributed significantly to create scientific and humanistic inroads in a number of areas of critical theory and thought. Beyond his exemplary contribution to the thinking organized around technology, scientific inquiry, and medial innovation, Friedrich Kittler always also remained a prolific and subtle literary critic, who inspired students on both sides of the Atlantic with his teaching and his books, many of which have been translated into numerous languages and are taught and studied as essential texts of the Humanities.