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  • Towards a Philosophy of Photography

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    With an introduction by Hubertus von AmelunxenMedia philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Communicology

    Mutations in Human Relations?

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Series series Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
    Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Gestures

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Post-History

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...
    Series series Univocal
    Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Thinking Further

    Fragments of Communicology

    by Vilém Flusser, Friedrich A. Kittler ...
    Translated by Andrew Battaglia, Daniel Raschke ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    The first English-language translation of Vilém Flusser’s final series of lectures: the definitive introduction to his methods and ideas in new media theoryIn summer 1991, shortly before his death, Vilém Flusser gave a series of lectures as guest professor at Ruhr University Bochum at the invitation of Friedrich Kittler. Flusser intended for these lectures to be the definitive introduction to his ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • What If?

    Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Anke Finger, Kenneth Kronenberg ...
    An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter“Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail.” —Vilém FlusserTwo years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Natural:Mind

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...
    Series series Univocal
    In Natural:Mind, published for the first time in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1979, Vilém Flusser investigates the paradoxical connection between the concepts of nature and culture through a lively para-phenomenological analysis of natural and cultural phenomena. Can culture be considered natural and nature cultural? If culture is our natural habitat then do we not inhabit nature? These are only some of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Shape of Things

    A Philosophy of Design

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Introduction by Martin Pawley.This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilém Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary ‘things’ as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The History of the Devil

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...
    Series series Univocal
    In 1939, a young Vilém Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethe’s Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, and it is the essence of those two books that haunts his own. From that time his life as a philosopher was born. While ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Does Writing Have a Future?

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Nancy Ann Roth ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Language

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...
    Series series Univocal
    In 1963 Vilém Flusser presented a series of lectures at the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in São Paulo concerning the philosophy of language. The resulting ten essays would eventually be published in 1965 in the annual magazine of the Brazilian Institute of Technology and Aeronautics (ITA), and published here for the first time in book form.Flusser prepared each lecture as a response to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • On Doubt

    by Vilém Flusser ...
    Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes ...
    Series series Univocal
    In On Doubt, Vilém Flusser refines Martin Heidegger’s famous declaration that “language is the dwelling of Being.” For Flusser, “the word is the dwelling of being,” because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word.On Doubt is a treatise on the human intellect, its relation to language, and the reality-forming discourses that subsequently emerge. For Flusser, the faith that the modern age ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD