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This essay makes a case for media-​epistemic plu­ral­ism, by stag­ing an encounter between Friedrich Kittler’s Gramo­phone, Film, Type­writer and Ralph Ellison’s auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal story ‘Liv­ing with Music’. It argues that a medium does not func­tion autonomously, but always forms a com­plex con­stel­la­tion with other media. This con­stel­la­tion takes shapes through the inter­ven­tions of the con­cep­tual per­sona of the engineer.