Christopher Busch

Strategische Zitate: zu Friedrich Kittlers Heidegger-Lektüre

The article examines the variant ways in which Friedrich Kittler quotes certain passages of Martin Heiddegger’s texts and especially of Heidegger’s seminal book Sein und Zeit (1927) over the course of his academic career. It argues that the telos of Kittler’s variant, non-philological quotation is the legitimation of German studies as well as cultural studies by telling a myth: Martin Heidegger, a philosophical authority, has consequently affirmed media technology.Thus, Kittler’s practice of citation reveals its strategic intention. A reading of literary texts that takes into account the apriori function of technological innovation is an appropriate method supported by Geistesgeschichte.