ExtractCarolineBassett In matters of technological change, women are more impacted upon than impacting. (Cockburn 1992, 38) Friedrich Kittler, media archaeologist and medium theorist, was the subject and star of a conference at Tate Modern a few years back. Given that Kittler’s recent philhellenic work on ancient Greece (see Winthrop-Young and Gane 2011) lauds a ‘mythical masculinity’ that, as Breger notes (2006, 131) , also has implications for gendered identity in more recent times, this might have been occasion for gender critique – and a brief intervention was made. In response the audience duly (dutifully) applauded and set the matter of gender aside, returning to the real work of the conference: a (now gender-bracketed) exploration of the analysis of the insights and legacy of Kittler’s incisive elaboration of a discourse network and medium theory. It troubles me that participants of this critically engaged event, myself included, passed so quickly over an...