Ten years after his death, Vilem 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 communication...
Ten years after his death, Vilem Flusser's reputation as one of Europe's most original modern philosophers continues to grow. Increasingly influential...
Has there been a shift in our concept of immateriality? In Immaterialism, VilEm Flusser explores some of the signs that point towards a cultural shift in relation to what we regard as immaterial. A shift which he considers fundamental for the understanding of the wider cultural changes we experience today. First published in Portuguese, as an essay in 1987 in the Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de HistOria da CiEncia, it was subsequently translated by the author into German and English. This edition presents Flusser's own English version of the text set as a visual poem by the...
Has there been a shift in our concept of immateriality? In Immaterialism, VilEm Flusser explores some of the signs that point towards a cu...