Shine On You Crazy Diamond. On the 2nd Anniversary of Friedrich Kittler’s Death

Two years ago today, at dawn, my mentor, teacher, former boss and friend Friedrich Kittler died. I had been at the hospital for most of the night, as had a few other members of the family, friends, companions. When night fell and breaths became ever more irregular, making you hold your own, we had started reading Homer’s Odyssey aloud. Each one of us read a few pages, each their own story.

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades. Yet even so he saved not his comrades, though he desired it sore, for through their own blind folly they perished—fools, who devoured the kine of Helios Hyperion;

I’ll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon.

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