Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent
communication crisis, this work by Vilem Flusser forecasts either
the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a
society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it
cannot change. First published in German in 1985 and now available
in English for the first time, "Into the Universe of Technical"
Images outlines the history of communication technology as a
process of increasing abstraction.
Flusser charts how communication evolved from direct interaction
with the world to mediation through various technologies. The
invention of writing marked one significant shift; the invention of
photography marked another, heralding the current age of the
technical image. The automation of the processing of technical
images carries both promise and threat: the promise of freeing
humans to play and invent and the threat for networks of automation
to proceed independently of humans.
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