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

  • Jen Boyle (author)
Chapter of: The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition(pp. 196–206)

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TitleThe Will to Obsolescence
SubtitleNietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present
ContributorJen Boyle (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.14
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightBoyle, Jen
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-09-12
Long abstractThis 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 rangepp. 196–206
Print length11 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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