Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is
the essential question that Vilem 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.
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