Writings / Vilem Flusser ; Andreas Strohl, editor ; translated by Erik Eisel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991.

Contributor:

Ströhl, Andreas.

Eisel, Erik.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 6.

Electronic mediations ; 6

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2002

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ten years after his death, Vilém Flusser's reputation as one of Europe's most original modern philosophers continues to grow. Increasingly influential in Europe and Latin America, the Prague-born intellectual's thought has until now remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. His innovative writings theorize-and ultimately embrace-the epochal shift that humanity is undergoing from what he termed ""linear thinking"" (based on writing) toward a new form of multidimensional, visual thinking embodied by digital culture. For Flusser, these new modes and technologies of communicatio

Contents:

What is communication?

On the theory of communication

Line and surface

The codified world

Criteria

crisis

criticism

Habit : the true aesthetic criterion

Betrayal

The future of writing

Images in the new media

On the crisis of our models

Change of paradigms

Taking up residence in homelessness

Exile and creativity

A new imagination

Mythical, historical, and posthistorical existence

Photography and history

A historiography revised

The vanity of history

On the end of history

Waiting for Kafka

Orders of magnitude and humanism

Celebrating

Designing cities

Humanizations

Essays

In search of meaning (philosophical self-portrait).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9151-7

OCLC:

476095142