Abstract
Friedrich Kittler’s “Discourse Networks” theory reveals how media technologies reshape the generation and dissemination patterns of knowledge through material infrastructures. Starting from Kittler’s analysis of 19th - century writing technologies and 20th - century analog media, this paper explores how algorithms, data storage, and artificial intelligence technologies in the digital age subvert the traditional epistemological framework and shape a new knowledge - production logic centered on technical materiality. By dissecting how technological media reshape human perception, language, literacy power, and education, this paper attempts to answer the question: In an era where technology deeply intervenes in the cognitive process, has the foundation of epistemology shifted from “human rationality” to “machine computation”?
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Technical Materiality，Reconstruction of Epistemology，Discourse Network
