Apparently this logo isn’t original enough to qualify for any kind of legal protection at all. Anyway, there’s a sobering piece about Facebook in the current New York Review of Books, just a few weeks...
Author: nannyrhops
The Devil and Time
The History of the Devil is the title of the second of three books Flusser wrote when he lived in Brazil (1940 – 1970), recently translated from Portuguese into English by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes...
Flusser Studies
I’m pleased to have recently joined the editorial board of Flusser Studies (flusserstudies.net) an on-line journal that publishes new research about Flusser’s life and work. In a few days, a new issue about the...
Reading Flusser
The article “The Protreptic Writer” is now available the special issue of Flusser Studies on the theme Flusser as a writer. In it, I try to share my own experience of reading Flusser — an experience...
Out of Language: Photographing as Translating
My essay for The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory traces Flusser’s engagement with photography–or more exactly, of his concern with the human-device mesh he called the apparatus. The idea of photography as an alternative...
Luxury
It has nothing to do with ostentation and need not be expensive. It has everything to do with inefficiency, wastefulness and impracticality. In this book, Lambert Wiesing sets out to simply describe luxury. Rather...