Discourse Volume 31, Numbers 1 & 2, Winter & Spring 2009 (On the Genealogy of Media)

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.

Discourse Volume 31, Numbers 1&2, Winter & Spring 2009
On the Genealogy of Media
Guest Editor: Laurence A. Rickels 

Introduction
Laurence A. Rickels

A Mathematics of Finitude: One E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Jesuit Church in G."
Friedrich A. Kittler (translated by Laurence A. Rickels)

Radio Nights: Evita Out of the Wives
Klaus Theweleit (translated by Laurence A. Rickels)

Sublimation as Media: inter urinas et faeces nascimur
Craig Saper

Walden Choragraphy: Frog Maintenance
Gregory L. Ulmer

Impressions: Proust, Photography, Trauma
Rebecca Comay

Half-Life
Laurence A. Rickels

On the Future of Our Incorporations: Nietzsche, Media, Events
Barbara Stiegler (translated by Helen Elam)

Zarathustran Bird Wars: Hitchcock's "Nietzsche" and the Teletechnic Loop
Tom Cohen

Nietzsche Loves You: A Media-Technological Start-up
Avital Ronell