Illustration
The issue, for me, seems to be how illustration is different from art (obviously a lot of images are either, depending on the way you define the categories). For now, I’m thinking that for...
Author: nannyrhops
Babel Fiche
Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser’s thought. He is the kind of practitioner I’m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I...
Extending Gesture
Enterprising research students at the University of Edinburgh have invited me to be a keynote speaker at a weekend conference they’re hosting this coming October. I am honored! It coincides with the work of...
Pages and Posts
Now that we’ve all become publishers, we may think about such abstruse things as the difference between a post and a page. Maybe a post is a bit of news; a page is more...
Working Translation
I saw this painting at the National Gallery about ten days ago, at the same time I received some thought-provoking criticisms of my Flusser translations. It made me want to clarify–and defend–my sense of...
Subject, Object and Motorcyle Maintenance
Rereading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) is a pleasure, maybe because it feels so comfortable. The road between Minneapolis and Bozeman means something to me, intersects with my family....