Kittler at transmediale 07

Bad enough that I didn't have the opportunity to attend transmediale in Berlin for two years in a row now, but thanks to the avid documentation-frenzy of some of the attendees, the ones who weren't there and are whining about it in the same fashion as I do have the chance to get at least Friedrich Kittler's keynote speech on the last day of the conference online. Kudos to Rainer Kohlberger. Direct link to the video here. (German only, sorry...)

In his lecture, he [Kittler] presents his current research concerning theories of machine, media and music and asks for the meaning of reversibility and infinite loop-d-loop which is being re-processed, after its execution as long as this is not prevented by external influences. What power lies in the knowledge that is hidden in computers and their algorithms?