Friedrich Kittler. Principles of Computer Graphics. 2010

http://www.egs.edu/ Literary scientist and media theorist Friedrich Kittler talking about computer monitors animated by graphics as most powerfully expressed through the mathematical algorithms of radiosity. In this lecture, Professor Kittler discusses principles of computer
graphics (Addison Wesley) ray tracing (outdoor scenes) vs radiosity (indoor scenes), 1000 recursions, and virtual 3-dimensional integration of real world experience. Analogizing the computers' "ubiquitous" presence to the Christian God, he emphasizes the chemical over the physical, how knowledge of the world is known first by our
machines, as in the case of the weather. He attributes today's nano-physics and technology as reflective of Richard M. Feynman's theoretical quandaries. Lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Friedrich Kittler.
Friedrich Adolf Kittler, Ph.D., is a literary scientist and media theorist. He was born in 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony Germany. His research and work is focused on media, history, communications, technology, and the military. Friedrich Kittler has been called the Derrida of the digital age. His innovative media theories have transformed the nature of technological scholarship and led the way in
the field. Kittler is an innovative and hard to define theorist, who has pushed theoretical works of literary scholars into technological fields with unprecedented modes of critical thought. Through his unique brand of media determinism his work is influencing new generations of students across the world.
In 1958 his family fled the German Democratic Republic, heading to West Germany. While living in West Germany during the years of 1958 to 1963, Fredrich Kittler studied natural sciences and modern languages
at Naturwissenschaftlich-neusprachliches Gymnasium in Lahr, in the Black Forest. Later, Friedrich Kittler studied German Studies, Romance Languages and Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg/Breisgau. In 1976, he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. During his studies, he was influenced by
Jacques Lacan's and Michel Foucault's writings.

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