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Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
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Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
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The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilem 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.
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