Index

                      CONTENTS

Introduction: Friedrich Kittler's Light Shows
by John Durham Peters                                            1

Acknowledgments                                                 18

Preface                                                         19
  
1. Theoretical Presuppositions                                  29

2. Technologies of the Fine Arts                                47

   2.1     Camera Obscura and Linear Perspective                47
   2.1.1   Prehistory                                           47
   2.1.1.1 Greeks and Arabs                                     50
   2.1.2   Implementation                                       52
   2.1.2.1 Brunelleschi                                         54
   2.1.2.2 Alberti                                              61
   2.1.3   Impact                                               65
   2.1.3.1 Perspective and Letterpress                          65
   2.1.3.2 The Self-Printing of Nature                          67
   2.1.3.3 Europe’s Colonial Power                              68

   2.2     Lanterna Magica and the Age of the World Picture     70
   2.2.1   Magic Lanterns in Action                             70
   2.2.2   Implementation                                       71
   2.2.3   Impact                                               72
   2.2.3.1 Propaganda                                           72
   2.2.3.2 Heidegger’s Age of the World Picture                 75
   2.2.3.3 Jesuits and Optical Media                            76
   2.3.3.4 Travelling People                                    81
   2.2.3.5 Jesuit Churches                                      81
   2.2.3.6 Jesuit Theatre                                       85

   2.3     Enlightenment and Image War                          89
   2.3.1   Brockes                                              89
   2.3.2   Phenomenology from Lambert to Hegel                  93
   2.3.3   Ghost Seer                                           98
   2.3.3.1 Schiller                                            101
   2.3.3.2 Hoffmann                                            109
   2.3.4   Romantic Poetry                                     112

3. Optical Media                                               118

   3.1     Photography                                         118
   3.1.1   Prehistory                                          118
   3.1.2   Implementation                                      119
   3.1.2.1 Niépce and Daguerre                                 125
   3.1.2.2 Talbot                                              132
   3.1.3   Painting and Photography: A Battle for the Eyeballs 136

   3.2     Film                                                145
   3.2.1   Preludes                                            145
   3.2.2   Implementation                                      154
   3.2.2.1 Marey and Muybridge                                 155
   3.2.2   Silent Film                                         160
   3.2.3   Sound Film                                          189
   3.2.4   Colour Film                                         202

   3.3   Television                                            207

4. Computer                                                    225

Bibliography                                                   231

Index                                                          237