| 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) |