Friedrich Kittler

“the madman [Daniel Schreber] sought to imply that everything he did and said within the asylum was written down or recorded immediately and that there was nothing anyone could do to avoid it being written down, sometimes by good angels and occasionally by bad angels.”

“[Discourse network is ] The network of technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store, and process relevant data.”

“Nur was schaltbar ist, ist überhaupt. [Only that which is switchable, exists.]”