Vilem Flusser : an introduction / Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, and Gustavo Bernardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finger, Anke K.

Contributor:

Guldin, Rainer.

Bernardo, Gustavo.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 34.

Electronic mediations ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Brazil.

Philosophers.

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991.

Flusser, Vilém.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of his accomplishments come to light, clearly establishing Flusser as a key thinker. An accessible and thorough introduction to Flusser's thought, this book reveals his engagement with a wide array of disciplines, from communication studies, posthuman philosophy, media studies, and history to art and art history, migrant studies, anthropology, and film studies. The first to connect Flusser's entire oeuvre, this volume shows how his works on media theo

Contents:

Introduction : Vilem Flusser's atlases

Migration, nomadism, networks : a biography

On doubt : the web of language

Translation and multilingual writing

Cultural studies and phenomenology

Communication and media theory

Science as fiction, fiction as science

On creativity : blue dogs with red spots and dialogic imagination.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4721-X

0-8166-7693-3

OCLC:

733040279