A gramophone, film, and typewriter now sits in your pocket. It is always connected, it is always writing, and it may be preparing you for how you will participate in the next war. Kittler's 1986 book provides an idea of how to look at today's communication technology as an analogy for understanding ourselves and as a mode of history.

Archival audio is from public domain sources on the Internet Archive and includes: Sound And The Story (1956), Typing Methods & Posture (1940), How a Recording is Made (1973), and WLUP 97.9 Chicago 13 July 1979.

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Do you ever have a feeling that you're just an extension of this technological order? Have you felt the buzz of a notification for a phone that's not in your pocket? How do you make a break?

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