Understanding Flusser, understanding modernism
by Jaffe, Aaron Martini, Rodrigo Miller, Michael F.
"The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilm̌ Flusser (1920?1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, shared experience, reception, and communication. Working within an expanded concept of modernism, Flusse…
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"The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilm̌ Flusser (1920?1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that trouble traditional practices of literary/literate knowledge, shared experience, reception, and communication. Working within an expanded concept of modernism, Flusser presciently noted the power inherent in algorithmic information apparatuses to reshape our fundamental conceptions of culture and history. In an increasingly technological world, Flusser's form of experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against cybernetics as it forces the category of ?the human? to confront the inhuman world of animals and machines. The contributors to Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Flusser's thought as they provide a general analysis of his work, engage in comparative readings with other philosophers, and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary clarifying the playful terminology used by Flusser, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike."--
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- Publication Date:2022.
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- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781501348464, 1501348469, 9781501348440, 1501348442, 1501348450, 9781501348457
- DOI:10.5040/9781501348464
- oclc:on1246723355
- LC Classification:B1044.F574
- Dewey Decimal:193
Table of Contents
Part I. Processing Flusser. 1. Flusser's Vampyroteuthis infernalis as media theory / Geoffrey Winthrop Young ; 2. The shape of Flusser's design / Steven Connor ; 3. Design/shape / Anke Finger ; 4. Flusser and biopolitics / Aaron Jaffe 5. "Naked little spasms of the self": in search of an authentic gesture in posthistorical times / Dominic Pettman 6. Does AI have a future? / Rita Raley and Rusell Samolsky ; 7. Irony of exile / Rodrigo Martini ; 8. An intersubjective style / Fran McDonald ; 9. Flusser's Literary databanks / Michael F. Miller ; 10. Flusser's Quasi-phenomenology / Andreas Ströhl ; 11. Posthistorical historicity today: historical time and virality after Flusser / Charles Tung ; 12. Art and the philosophy of Vilěm Flusser / Martha Schwendener (New York University, USA) -- Part II. Flusser's expanded modernism. 1. Demonologies / Laurence Rickels (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) ; 2. The 'Pataphysical span: Alfred Jarry and Vilěm Flusser / Judith Roof ; 3. Flusser's new weird / Keith Leslie Johnson ; 4. A philosophy of refraction: Vilěm Flusser's Speculative biology and the study of paramedia / David Bering-Porter ; 5. The metamorphoses of Kafka and Flusser /…
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