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Does Writing Have a Future? (Paperback)
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Does Writing Have a Future? (Paperback)
Series: Electronic Mediations
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In "Does Writing Have a Future?," a remarkably perceptive work
first published in German in 1987, Vilem Flusser asks what will
happen to thought and communication as written communication gives
way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction,
Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future
because everything that is now conveyed in writing--and much that
cannot be--can be recorded and transmitted by other means.
Confirming Flusser's status as a theorist of new media in the same
rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and
Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out the nuances
of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and
practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest
forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under
way. For Flusser, writing--despite its limitations when compared to
digital media--underpins historical consciousness, the concept of
progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a
cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art
of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new
kinds of thought and expression.
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Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Electronic Mediations |
Release date: |
February 2011 |
First published: |
February 2011 |
Authors: |
Vilém Flusser
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Translators: |
Nancy Ann Roth
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Introduction by: |
Mark Poster
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Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-7023-9 |
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LSN: |
0-8166-7023-4 |
Barcode: |
9780816670239 |
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