Abstract
Kittler’s Discourse Network 1800/1900 (1985) only extends to the 1900s. However, in Optical Media (2002), Kittler asserted that digital technology results in “the replacement of the subject by software”, and algorithms become the new “technological a priori”. This provides a design idea for us to expand the opening chapter of Kittler’s discourse network. That is, computer programs (such as operating systems and protocols) form an “unconscious infrastructure”, human behaviors are encoded into computable data streams, and the discourse network is completely beyond human control. This, in turn, forms a new contrast with the infinitely high - status of nature in the 1800s part of Kittler’s discourse network – a new kind of “disorder”. In the face of this new “disorder”, there are also more new references and elaborations regarding the technicalization process of publishing and literacy, as well as the production of knowledge.
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Discourse Network 2000,Knowledge Production,New Publishing
