ABSTRACT Friedrich Kittler’s media history is rarely employed by humanities scholars, who are often alienated by his disregard for literary content or humanistic concerns. This article makes the case for engaging with Kittler’s theories as a natural extension of the materialist turn common to a number of humanities disciplines. Here, I assemble a ‘toolkit’ from Kittler’s ideas of recursion and transposition, and the study of cultural techniques that has flowed from his works, in order to propose a new way to conceive of ekphrasis and approach ekphrastic verse. I -position ekphrasis as an informative example of recursion in action. I compare Kittler’s media history—and the insights yielded by the tools it offers us—to some of the most influential studies of ekphrasis and ekphrases, showing how a Kittlerian approach can shine a new light on the genre. I also offer a short illustrative example of applying these tools to ekphrastic work by analyzing Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘A Sea Spell’, by which I also hope to demonstrate how Kittler’s ideas can assist twenty-first-century scholars in bridging the gap between our own medial situation and those in which our objects of study were produced.

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基特勒的案例：考虑将ekphrasis视为递归

摘要弗里德里希·基特勒（Friedrich Kittler）的媒体历史很少被人文学科的学者聘用，他们常常因他对文学内容或人文主义问题的漠视而疏远了。本文提出了与基特勒的理论进行互动的理由，这是对许多人文学科普遍存在的唯物主义转向的自然延伸。在这里，我从基特勒的递归和换位思想以及从他的作品中汲取的文化技巧的研究中组装了一个“工具包”，以提出一种新的方式来理解ekphrasis和运用ekphrastic诗歌。I位置内脏易怒是行动递归的一个有益例子。我将基特勒的媒体历史（以及它提供给我们的工具所产生的见解）与一些最有影响力的以法医和用语研究进行了比较，展示了Kittlerian的方法如何为该类型带来新的亮点。我还通过分析但丁·加布里埃尔·罗塞蒂（Dante Gabriel Rossetti）的《海上咒语》（A Sea Spell），提供了将这些工具应用于疯狂工作的简短说明性示例，我还希望借此展示基特勒的思想如何帮助二十一世纪的学者弥合我们之间的鸿沟中间情况以及产生我们研究对象的情况。