Professor Friedrich A. Kittler interviewed about Twitter in 2003… #comics #socialmedia
Quote from the interview [PDF]with John Armitage, “From Discourse Networks to Cultural Mathematics,” Theory Culture Society 2006; 23; 17.
*N.B.: This, like others in this same A Life Deferred! series, is a joke. He was not talking specifically about Twitter… (then again, of course he was!).
Walter Benjamin interviewed about Twitter in 1936… #comics
Quote from Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) as translated by J.A. Underwood, in One-Way Street and Other Writings (London: Penguin Classics 2009).
Michel Foucault interviewed about Twitter in 1975…
Quote from Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995).





