Stefan Heidenreich, “Media Materialism and the Logic of Links” When Friedrich Kittler said, “media determine our situation,” the term “situation” (or Lage, in German) refers to a type of military briefing that provides an overview of different positions on the battlefield and the accordant actions to be taken. Surprisingly, this “situation,” as a very contemporary, practical issue, never received any attention from Kittler’s branch of German media theory, and even resulted in its blindness to the increasing ubiquity of the internet.

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