Three short chapters from Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real (Fordham University Press, 2015):
– Introduction: Cultural Techniques, or, The End of the Intellectual Postwar in German Media Theory
– Chapter 6. (Not) in Place: The Grid, or, Cultural Techniques of Ruling Spaces
– Chapter 8. Waterlines: Striated and Smooth Spaces as Techniques of Ship Design