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Autore |
Flusser Vilém <1920-1991.> |
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Titolo |
Writings / / Vilem Flusser ; Andreas Strohl, editor ; translated by Erik Eisel |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Collana |
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Electronic mediations ; ; 6 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy |
Communication - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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