Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 13. Thinking in Exile – Pensare in esilio

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Publisher : Inschibboleth edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8855290606
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book Azimuth VII (2019), nr. 13. Thinking in Exile – Pensare in esilio written by Rainer Guldin and published by Inschibboleth edizioni. This book was released on 2020-02-20T00:00:00 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early nineties, the reception of Vilém Flusser was mainly focused on his media theory. If on the one hand this focus allowed to launch the first development in the study of Flusser’s ideas, on the other hand, it ended to conceal other relevant topics and aspects of his thought. Even if his work appears fragmented into several areas, there is a source that produces this variety of topics and methodologies: a deep connection between exile, creativity, and thought. Flusser’s philosophy is thinking in exile between nations and national identities across different languages, between and outside defined disciplines and scientific fields. The entire Flusser’s oeuvre becomes an expression of a collapsed ground, also revealing an unexpected sense of freedom, both existential and philosophical. His path of thinking exhibits radical unfaithfulness towards homeness and reassuring boundaries, both spatial and epistemological, both literal and metaphorical. The purpose of this issue of Azimuth is to map this intersection in Flusser's thought, by taking into account the complexity of his multifaceted thinking and the overlapping of different fields.

Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501348450
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism by : Aaron Jaffe

Download or read book Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism written by Aaron Jaffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, shared experience, reception, and communication. Working within an expanded concept of modernism, Flusser presciently noted the power inherent in algorithmic information apparatuses to reshape our fundamental conceptions of culture and history. In an increasingly technological world, Flusser's form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human” to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines. The contributors to Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Flusser's thought as they provide a general analysis of his work, engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary clarifying the playful terminology used by Flusser, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike.

Into the Universe of Technical Images

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081667020X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Into the Universe of Technical Images written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.

The History of the Devil

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1937561429
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Devil written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, a young Vilém Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethe’s Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, and it is the essence of those two books that haunts his own. From that time his life as a philosopher was born. While Flusser would later garner attention in Europe and elsewhere as a thinker of media culture, The History of the Devil is considered by many to be his first significant work, containing nascent forms of the main themes that would come to preoccupy him over the following decades. In The History of the Devil, Flusser frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of view. The phenomenal world, or “reality” in a general sense, is identified as the “Devil,” and that which transcends phenomena, or the philosophers’ and theologians’ “reality,” is identified as “God.” Referencing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its structure, Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of reality, where “phenomenon” and “transcendence,” “Devil” and “God” become fused and confused. So radically confused, in fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks from the terms “Devil” and “God.” At this moment of abysmal confusion, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives.

Does Writing Have a Future?

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816670226
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Does Writing Have a Future? written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prescient exploration of the fate of the book in the digital age.

The Freedom of the Migrant

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028175
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Download or read book The Freedom of the Migrant written by Vilem Flusser and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Freedom of the Migrant presents a series of reflections on national, ethnic, and cultural identity, offering a unique perspective on such topics as communication, nomadism, housing, nationalism, migrant cultures, and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET.

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis

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ISBN 13 : 9780816678228
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Vampyroteuthis Infernalis written by Vilém Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) was born in Prague. He emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper column in Sao Paulo, then later moved to France. He wrote several books in Portuguese and German. Writings (2004), Into the Universe of Technical Images (2011), and Does Writing Have a Future? (2011) have been published by the University of Minnesota Press, and the Shape of Things, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, and The Freedom of the Migrant have also been translated into English.

Post-History

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1937561305
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Post-History written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser’s first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term “program,” much in the same way that the seventeenth century is loosely characterized by the term “nature,” the eighteenth by “reason,” and the nineteenth by “progress.” In suggesting this shift in worldview, he then poses a provocative question: If I function within a predictable programmed reality, can I rebel and how can I do it? The answer comes swiftly: Only malfunctioning programs and apparatus allow for freedom. Throughout the twenty essays of Post-History, Flusser reminds us that any future theory of political resistance must consider this shift in worldview, together with the horrors that Western society has brought into realization because of it. Only then may we start to talk again about freedom.

Language and Reality

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Publisher : Univocal
ISBN 13 : 9781517904289
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Language and Reality written by Vilém Flusser and published by Univocal. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is reality -- Language shapes reality -- Language creates reality -- Language propagates reality -- The greater conversation

Natural:Mind

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1937561356
Total Pages : 111 pages
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Download or read book Natural:Mind written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Natural:Mind, published for the first time in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1979, Vilém Flusser investigates the paradoxical connection between the concepts of nature and culture through a lively para-phenomenological analysis of natural and cultural phenomena. Can culture be considered natural and nature cultural? If culture is our natural habitat then do we not inhabit nature? These are only some of the questions that are raised in Natural:Mind in order to examine our continual redefinition of both terms and what that means for us existentially. Always applying his fluid and imagistic Husserlian style of phenomenology, Flusser explores different perspectives and relations of items from everyday life. The book is composed of a series of essays based on close observations of familiar objects such as paths, valleys, cows, meadows, trees, fingers, grass, the moon, and buttons. By focusing on things we mostly take for granted, he manages not only to reveal some aspects of their real and obscured nature but also to radically change how we look at them. The ordinary cow will never be seen in the same way again.

Vilém Flusser

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816674787
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Vilém Flusser written by Anke K. Finger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Translation as Metaphor

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317621697
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Translation as Metaphor written by Rainer Guldin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many cross-disciplinary movements they imply. In five chapters, this book examines: · The main metaphor theories developed in the West. · The way the notion of metaphor relates to the concept of translation. · Different theoretical perspectives on metaphors of translation in translation studies. · The main metaphors developed to describe translation in the West and in the East. · Spatial metaphors within translation studies, cultural studies and postcolonial theory. · The use of the metaphor of translation across psychoanalysis, anthropology and ethnography, postcolonial theory, history and literature, sociology, media and communication theory, and medicine and genetics. Comprehensive analysis of key metaphor theories, revealing examples from a wide range of sources and a look towards future directions make this is a must-have book for students, researchers and translators working in the areas of translation and translation theory.

Philosophy of Language

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1937561658
Total Pages : 109 pages
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Download or read book Philosophy of Language written by Vilém Flusser and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 Vilém Flusser presented a series of lectures at the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in São Paulo concerning the philosophy of language. The resulting ten essays would eventually be published in 1965 in the annual magazine of the Brazilian Institute of Technology and Aeronautics (ITA), and published here for the first time in book form. Flusser prepared each lecture as a response to the dialogs that followed the preceding lecture, thereby expanding and explicating his philosophy of language in an intense dialogical process. Despite the fact that the other side of the dialogue was not recorded, it becomes clear to the reader that the resulting discussions and polemics generated by the lectures progressively and profoundly changed Flusser’s intended trajectory for the course. This kind of philosophy in fieri was in part the result of a group effort between all of those present, and subsequently synthesized by Flusser in every essay. As a result of this experience, Flusser adopted this dialogic method as an integral part of his future work.

Immaterialism

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ISBN 13 : 9780993327216
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Immaterialism written by Vilem Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 artist Chagrin. This book is the first title of the Metatext series by Metaflux, edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes."

The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication

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ISBN 13 : 9780993327254
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication written by Vilem Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of twelve essays on communication and information theory, covering a range of subjects such as memory, symbols, communication media, art, models, values, and more. Delivered as lectures by Vilem Flusser in Aix-en-Provence 1975."

Into Immaterial Culture

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ISBN 13 : 9780993327209
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book Into Immaterial Culture written by Vilem Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the alphabet about to disappear? How will we communicate without it? Are there any indications of new, emergent codes? Is human communication going through a mutation? These are only some of the provocative questions posed by Vilem Flusser in "Into Immaterial Culture." The four essays of this book were delivered as a series of lectures at the School of Communication and the Arts of the University of Sao Paulo in August of 1986, one year after the publication of the first Brazilian edition of "Towards a Philosophy of Photography," published as "A Filosofia da Caixa Preta." Through these four short essays, Flusser presents, in a nutshell, his communications theory. Their style is condensed, with a series of quick-fire sentences, which are best read in conjunction with his major works of the same period. However, for a fist time reader of his work, these four lectures are a good introduction to some of Flusser's polemic and provocative concepts regarding human communication, its future, and its ethical, aesthetic, and epistemological implications; a vision that is paradoxically utopian and dystopian."

Artforum // Essays

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ISBN 13 : 9780993327230
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Artforum // Essays written by Vilém Flusser and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty eight essays written by the philosopher Vilem Flusser for Artforum Magazine, NY. All essays were published between 1986 and 1992. The essays are accompanied by thirty-two colour images of artworks by international artists and designers. The book is edited by Martha Schwendener who writes for the New York Times and Artforum.