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Author:   Vilém Flusser ,  Aaron Jaffe ,  Michael F. Miller ,  Silvia Wagnermaier
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.142kg
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9781517919207

ISBN 10:   1517919207
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   06 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Contents Note on the Translation Preface — Friedrich A. Kittler Editorial Preface: Toward VilÉm Flusser’s Bochum Lectures — Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski Inaugural Lecture: Before the Board of Trustees Motives/Motifs Natural and Human Sciences Communication Theory Lecture 1: On the Communicological Art of Definition Kultur/Kritik Processing: Dialogue Transmitting: Discourse Saving Mythical: Oral Culture Magical: Material Culture Standpoints Phenomenological Informatical Scientific-Critical Cultural Revolutions From Work to Waste After the Communication Revolution: Bundling versus Networking Lecture 2: Of Spaces and Order Publicizing I Publicizing III Virtual Space Alternate Worlds Calculable Freedom, Intersubjective Creativity Proxemics Responsibility Lecture 3: Abstractions and Feedback Numerical Code From Culling to Counting Arithmetic Geometry Antirationalism: Intuition and Nazism Programming Lecture 4: On Science, Art, Politics, and Technology On the Decline of the Aura and the Death of the Author Work II: Soft and Hard The Practice of Writing From Homo universale to Teamwork The Unemployed as Avant-Garde The End of Politics I Lecture 5. On the Death of Images and the End of History Video: Instant Philosophy Mirrors: Reflection and Speculation Bundling Instead of Networking—At the End of All Structures Networking Games and Art Spiele, Jogos, Games Lecture 6: About Chance and the Freedom to Play with and against It Coincidence On Freedom I: Refraining From On Freedom II: Anticipating Concerning Lost Freedom I: Sin Concerning Lost Freedom II: Technics and Will Concerning Lost Freedom III: To Accept Lecture 7: On Leisure Unemployment and Interface On the Suffix “-matic” On the Prefix “Tele-” Pathos Epilogue: Flusser’s Planet — Aaron Jaffe and Michael F. Miller Notes

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""Vilem Flusser was one of the first to understand that the shift toward a digital world would not only change the way we communicate but alter our fundamental understanding of what communication is. This elegantly curated collection of some of Flusser's last lectures are an ideal introduction to one of the most seductive, stimulating, omnivorous, and incandescent minds of the second half of the twentieth century.""--Dominic Pettman, coauthor of Metagestures ""In these selections from his final lectures of 1991, in which he pulls out the implications of the 'communicology' toward which he had been working all his writing life, Vilém Flusser shows no sign of coming sedately to rest. Exhibiting all his signature fluency and audacity, and oscillating restlessly between a view of the 'general stupefaction' arising from a world of 'cretinized information' and the freedom of play made available through technology, Flusser offers a new image of the human, whirled out of the 'hurricane that is the communication revolution.'""--Steven Connor, King's College London

""Vilem Flusser was one of the first to understand that the shift toward a digital world would not only change the way we communicate but alter our fundamental understanding of what communication is. This elegantly curated collection of some of Flusser's last lectures are an ideal introduction to one of the most seductive, stimulating, omnivorous, and incandescent minds of the second half of the twentieth century.""--Dominic Pettman, coauthor of Metagestures

""Vilem Flusser was among the first to understand that the shift toward a digital world would not only change the way we communicate but alter our fundamental understanding of what communication is. This elegantly curated collection of some of Flusser's last lectures are an ideal introduction to one of the most seductive, stimulating, omnivorous, and incandescent minds of the second half of the twentieth century.""—Dominic Pettman, coauthor of Metagestures ""In these selections from his final lectures of 1991, in which he pulls out the implications of the 'communicology' toward which he had been working all his writing life, Vilém Flusser shows no sign of coming sedately to rest. Exhibiting all his signature fluency and audacity, and oscillating restlessly between a view of the 'general stupefaction' arising from a world of 'cretinized information' and the freedom of play made available through technology, Flusser offers a new image of the human, whirled out of the 'hurricane that is the communication revolution.'""—Steven Connor, King's College London

Author Information

Vilem Flusser (19201991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer, and journalist. The University of Minnesota Press has published translations of a dozen of his works, including Into the Universe of Technical Images, Does Writing Have a Future?, Gestures, and What If?. Silvia Wagnermaier is cocreator, with Siegfried Zielinski, of the Vilem Flusser archive at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She lives and works as a motoring journalist in Austria. Siegfried Zielinski is Michel Foucault Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee and visiting professor at Tongji University Shanghai. Friedrich A. Kittler (19432011) was professor and chair of aesthetics and media history at Humboldt University, Berlin and author of Discourse Networks 1800/1900 and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of American Literature at Florida State University. Michael F. Miller teaches literature and literary theory in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Andrew Battaglia is a translator and independent scholar. He has taught at Rice University, the University of Montana, and Seattle University. Daniel Raschke is visiting assistant professor of English at Bethel College, Kansas.

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