151Mediatic Muses, Sacrifices, and Survivors: Klaus Theweleit’s Pattern of Male Art Production

A medium is a medium is a medium.As the sentence says, there is no difference between occult and technological media.Their truth is fatality, their field the unconscious.(Kittler 1990, 229) � German title: Buch der Könige.Orpheus und Eurydike.Given that only Male Fantasies (1987) and Object-Choice (1994) have been published in English translation, I will use my own translations of Theweleit's book titles for the sake of readability and consistency.The German titles of the texts are given in the footnotes when first mentioned in the text.Furthermore, the Book of Kings volumes will be abbreviated BdK1 (Orpheus und Eurydike) and BdK2x (Orpheus am Machtpol), respectively, in the in-text citations.� Orpheus and Eurydice are not the only figures Theweleit uses to illustrate this pattern.Other figures that appear in the text and impersonate aspects and types of male artists are for instance: Napoleon, kings, Narcissus, Minotaur, centaurs, Apollo, Dionysus.The Eurydice paradigm includes among others: Pallas Athena, Echo, typewriting secretaries, female singing stars, etc.