Editor's Preface / Ilinca Iurascu, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, and Michael Wutz  vii Introduction: The Wars of Friedrich Kittler / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young  1 Part I: Guns, Germans, and Steel: The Hardware(s) of War 1. Free Ways (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)   53 2. A Short History of the Searchlight (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  62 3. Fragments of a History of Firearms (Translated by Michael Wutz)  69 4. Tanks (Translated by Michael Wutz)  73 Part II. Wires, Waves, and Wagner 5. Noises of War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  79 6. Playback: A World War History of Radio Drama (Translated by Michael Wutz)  91 7. Operation Valhalla (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  110 8. When the Blitzkrieg Raged (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  117 Part III. Vanishing Animals and Returning Nomads 9. Animals of War: A Historical Bestiary (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  123 10. On Modern Warfare: A Conversation with Alexander Kluge (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  127 11. Of States and Their Terrorists (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  136 Part IV. Love and War 12. Manners of Death in War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  151 13. Ottilie Hauptmann (Translated by Ilinca Iurascu)  166 Part V. Pynchon's War 14. On a Novel That Would Not Only Be Fiction . . . (Translated by Michael Wutz)  193 15. De Nostalgia (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  198 16. Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War (Translated by Michael Wutz)  211 Part VI. Kittler on Kittler 17. Biogeography (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  227 18. Theology (Translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)  233 Notes  235 Bibliography  273 Index  287 Credits  295  

“The preeminent thinker of media in the past half century, Friedrich Kittler speaks to deep concerns of the digital age in a voice that is philosophical, wry, learned, obscure, indirect, profound, and always stimulating. To read him is to have your neurons rearranged. Kittler’s work is essential.”