Friedrich A. Kittler

"Karen An-hwei Lee's book is in the form of an eccentric dictionary. In Medias Res brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson, though Lee is less concerned with ironies than with mysteries. In compressed and oddly slanted "definitions," ranging from one line, "A paper bird unopened until marriage" ("Comparison"), to longer, parablelike narratives, Lee's poems move through the alphabet in an attempt to limn the border between language and spirit. Often playful and slyly humorous, In Media Res is an investigation into how God hides in language."--BOOK JACKET.

"Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, past theoretical discussion of the responses to these media - including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovators - Gramphone, Film, Typewriter analyzes this momentous shift using insights from the work of Foucault, Lacan, and McLuhan. Fusing discourse analysis, structuralist psychoanalysis, and media theory, and the author adds a vital historical dimension to the current debates over the relationship between electronic literacy and poststructuralism, and the extent to which we are constituted by our technologies."--BOOK JACKET.