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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966587303321

Autore

Flusser Vilém <1920-1991.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9151-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

StröhlAndreas

EiselErik

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Philosophy

Communication - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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