Name: Does Writing Have a Future? (Electronic Mediations)
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Author: Vilém Flusser

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Does Writing Have a Future? (Electronic Mediations)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vilém Flusser

Publisher

University Of Minnesota Press

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.60

ISBN13

9780816670239

Edition No.

Synopsis "Does Writing Have a Future? (Electronic Mediations) "

In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilem 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 recorded and transmitted by other means. Confirming Flusser's status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under way. For Flusser, writing-despite its limitations when compared to digital media-underpins historical consciousness, the concept of progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new kinds of thought and expression.

Vilém Flusser

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Vilém Flusser (Prague, May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-Brazilian philosopher, writer, and journalist, known for his reflections on technology, communication, and the image in the post-industrial era
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Born into an intellectual Jewish family, Flusser began studying philosophy at Charles University in Prague in 1938. Following the Nazi occupation, he emigrated to London in 1939 and, the following year, moved to Brazil, where he lived until his death. In Brazil, he worked in various companies and began to develop his philosophical thought, publishing articles and books in Portuguese, German, English, and French.

Among his most notable works are Language and Reality (1963), Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983), and Vampyroteuthis infernalis (1987), a philosophical fable that explores the relationship between humans and the world. In Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Flusser analyzes photography as a transcendental act and its impact on the perception of reality.

Flusser died in 1991 in a car accident on the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia, the country he had left in his youth. His legacy continues to be an essential reference in studies on technology, communication, and contemporary philosophy.

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