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Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies. The book ties the establishment of new discursive practices to the introduction of new media technologies, and it shows how both determine the ways in which psychoanalysis conceives of the psychic apparatus in terms of information machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGramophone, Film, Typewriter\u003c\/i\u003e is, among other things, a continuation as well as a detailed elaboration of the second part of the author's \u003ci\u003eDiscourse Networks, 1800\/1900\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 1990). As such, it bridges the gap between Kittler's discourse analysis of the 1980's and his increasingly computer-oriented work of the 1990's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Friedrich A. 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