NIGHTBLACK: Formatting Love

In recent years, Friedrich Kittler’s work has repeatedly been associated with the project of HeideggerianSeinsgeschichte. Most prominently, in a text published in 2012, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht argues that in light of Kittler’s posthumous texts and his two volumes on Greece,Musik und Mathematik(published in 2006 and 2009), the project of “Seinsgeschichte constitutes the continuity of Friedrich Kittler’s entire oeuvre,” thereby lending “an explicitly philosophical ground to the early texts” as well.¹ The termSeinsgeschichteis both easy and hard to translate: literally, it is “the history of being.” What is meant is, to quote a rough definition by