This article studies how Johann Wilhelm Ritter proved that a specifically German Romantic approach turned a scientific impasse in the study of light into a new beginning. Ritter's thinking of polarity transcended a simple...
Novalis (1772-1801), poet and scientist of early German Romanitcism, opens his novel fragment Die Lehrlinge zu Sais [translated as The Apprentices or The Novices at Sais ], a meditation on the relationship of human knowledge...
German scholar Georg Christoph Lichtenberg found in the 1770s dust formations on his electrophorus, a new device for electrical experiments. These Lichtenberg Figures became famous as earliest visualizations of electricity....
With his Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900, translated as Discourse Networks 1800/1900, Friedrich Kittler stirred up the German academic scene of the 1980s.The manuscript was written to be his Habilitation (the highly formalized...
Champlin, Jeffrey, and Antje Pfannkuchen, eds. The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler Between Implementation and the Incalculable. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018., For more information on the published...
Pfannkuchen, Antje, and Leif Weatherby. “Writing Polarities: Romanticism and the Dynamic Unity of Poetry and Science,” in “Writing Polarities: Romanticism and the Dynamic Unity of Poetry and Science,” ed. Antje Pfannkuchen and...
