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Today they are standard everywhere: As is well known, nuclear blasts send an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) through the usual copper cables, which would infect all connected computers. 33 Unlike Kittler, I am not concerned to argue here that Nietz sche was a film-theorist avant la lettre. 35 32 Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, 1. 33 Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 22. 34 See here, again, the contributions to — and note the title of — Nietzsche’s Value as a Scholar of Antiquity, ed. Anthony Jensen and Helmut Heit (including my own essay “Nietzsche’s Philology and the Science of Antiquity,” 233–62).
Connected by some thinkers to the humanist enthusiasm for techno-transhumanism, we could ask why Nietzsche asks us to revalue values — after all, aren’t we already doing that? Didn’t the free thinkers of Nietzsche’s day do that? Weren’t they enlightened enough? Did they not in fact already go beyond what had been regarded as good and beyond what had been regarded as evil? Why, using the mouthpiece of his Thus Spoke Zarathustra, does Nietzsche urge us to “overcome” humanity unless to remind us to get over ourselves and our petty wanting, our longing, for immortality?
This interpretation of living bodies has led to a valorization of supposedly immortal souls and contempt for mortal bodies. The adoption of a proper mix between these two attitudes would then lead to a corresponding mix of punishment and rewards in and for eternal life. Thereby the great numbers of sufferers were granted also the vision of being able to see their oppressors tortured, punished, and them3 Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra IV, 1–3, “Das Eselsfest,” Kritische Studienausgabe, ed.