Flusseriana

Titel: Flusseriana : an intellectual toolbox ; Vilém Flusser ; [... publ. on the occasion of the exhibition Without firm ground - Vilém Flusser and the arts (= Vilém Flusser und die Künste) at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from August 14 to October 18, 2015, and at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin from November 19.2015 to January 10, 2016 ...] / edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Peter Weibel with Daniel Irrgang
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Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis, Min. : Univocal Publ., [2015]
Umfang: 559 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch; Deutsch; Portugiesisch
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ISBN: 1937561526 ; 9781937561529 ; 9781937561529

Freestyle thinking--that is Vilém Flusser's intellectual modus operandi: challenging and offensive, paradoxical and audacious. His thought knows no disciplines or subjects nor does it pay tribute to other academic frameworks or rituals. Above all else his thought wants to intervene in ongoing cultural and artistic processes and influence them. In order to achieve this, no closed theoretical systems are necessary--only open, operative structures. The Flusseriana is a toolbox capable of being developed and expanded. It contains more than two hundred "thinkthings" ( Denkdinge ) of all kinds: particularities like "Indian Summer," "Atlas," "Submissiveness," "Animal," and "Mediterranean Sea"; condensed Flusserian thought concerning the big eternal questions such as "History," "Language," "Myth," and "Religion"; the central concepts of his media analysis including "Apparatus," "Abstraction," "Cybernetics," and "Telematics"; as well as Flusser's own neologisms, "Communicology," "Universe of Dots," and the old and the new "Imaginations." More than one hundred authors produced the entries under these entries in a dialogic practice entirely in the spirit of the philosophical writer from Prague.