(P/B) FLUSSER: WRITINGS

Παρουσίαση

Vilem Flusser's 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 communication make possible a society (the "telematic" society) in which dialogue between people becomes the supreme value. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgments
Introduction - Andreas Strohl
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)
Selected Bibliography
Copyright and Original Publication Information
Index