The Will to Obsolescence: Nietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present

Jen Boyle (author)

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Title	The Will to Obsolescence
Subtitle	Nietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present
Contributor	Jen Boyle (author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.14
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Boyle, Jen
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2016-09-12
Long abstract	This small love-poem written by Nietz sche in 1882 celebrates his acquisition of the Malling-Hansen Writing-Ball, a machine that would — for a time at least — offer prosthetic assistance for Nietz sche’s failing vision (fig. 1). In various letters, he expresses his delight with a device for writing that is “guided only by a sense of touch” and which no longer requires “the eyes to do their work.”2 Fried rich Kittler juxtaposes Nietz sche’s sentiments on the definitively tactile power of the Writing-Ball with fragments from Heidegger’s essay on “The Hand and Typewriter” to write
Page range	pp. 196–206
Print length	11 pages
Language	English (Original)

This small love-poem written by Nietz sche in 1882 celebrates his acquisition of the Malling-Hansen Writing-Ball, a machine that would — for a time at least — offer prosthetic assistance for Nietz sche’s failing vision (fig. 1). In various letters, he expresses his delight with a device for writing that is “guided only by a sense of touch” and which no longer requires “the eyes to do their work.”2 Fried rich Kittler juxtaposes Nietz sche’s sentiments on the definitively tactile power of the Writing-Ball with fragments from Heidegger’s essay on “The Hand and Typewriter” to write