Communicology : mutations in human relations? / Vilém Flusser ; edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ; with a foreword by N. Katherine Hayles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991. Kommunikologie. English, author.

Contributor:

Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez, editor.

Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943- writer of foreword.

Series:

Sensing media (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical Imagination?," the work touches on theater, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser's theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Series Page

Contents

Foreword

Editor's Note

Synopsis

1. What Is Communication?

1.1. Discourse and Dialogue

1.1.1. Theatrical Discourse

1.1.2. Pyramidal Discourse

1.1.3. Tree Discourse

1.1.4. Amphitheatrical Discourse

1.1.5. Circular Dialogue

1.1.6. Network Dialogue

1.2. How These Structures Work

1.2.1. Theater and Circle

1.2.2. Pyramid and Tree

1.2.3. Amphitheater and Network

1.3. Some Characteristic Situations

1.3.1. Printed Books

1.3.2. Manuscripts

1.3.3. Technical Images

2. What Are Codes?

2.1. How Some Codes Emerged

2.1.1. Pre-alphabet

2.1.2. Alphabet

2.1.3. Post-alphabet

2.2. How These Codes Work

2.2.1. Images

2.2.2. Texts

2.2.3. Technical Images

2.2.3.1. Literary Languages Overcome

2.2.3.2. Apparatus-Operator

2.2.4. Code Synchronization

2.2.4.1. Traditional Image/Text

2.2.4.2. Traditional Image/Technical Image

2.2.4.3. Text/Technical Image

3. What Is Technical Imagination?

3.1. Some Technical Images Deciphered

3.1.1. Photographs

3.1.2. Films

3.1.3. Video

3.1.4. Television

3.1.5. Cinema

3.2. How Technical Images Might Work

3.2.1. Points of View

3.2.2. Time

3.2.3. Space

3.3. The Present Situation

Series List.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503634497

1503634493

OCLC:

1350570435