Fear of Facebook
Does anyone else find that once you have had to change something about your habits, patterns, rituals — whatever you want to call them — a lot of others come up for questioning? I like...
Author: neophyte
Ptychography
Until today, I had never heard of it: Introduced in electron microscopy by Hegerl and Hoppe in the early 1970s, “ptychography” (pronounced “tikography,” I think) is an imaging technique that combines diffraction data from...
“Drawing” and “Being Drawn”
The German word “Entwerfen” — drafting or drawing — is closely related, a kind of reversal of the verb “werfen,” which is to throw, or hurl, or toss. Flusser uses the association to describe...
homo ludens
Flusser is well-known as a “media theorist,” and hardly known at all as a “games theorist.” But games figure often and prominently in his thinking and writing from the time of his earliest publications...