hybrid consciousness
“We have to keep reminding ourselves that any type of qualitative subjectivity is a form of consciousness. The possession of such states is necessary and sufficient for being conscious. Consciousness comes in degrees, and...
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technical images
It’s among the most central–and difficult–of the terms Flusser introduced. It suggests, loosely, “digital” images, “mass” media, “new” media. But it is both more and less than any of these. The phrase is awkward, perhaps...
a photograph’s imaginary power
“…though I do not reject the power of magic, the object of the act of photography is something greater and higher. It consists in raising the real object to a new power — the...
science fiction
I became a bit unruly at a dinner party recently when my hostess asserted that science fiction was “license to just do anything you want, no rules”. I guess it’s a common enough bit...
Into the Universe of Technical Images (Flusser’s book)
Especially compared to either Towards a Philosophy of Photography (English translation, 2000) or Does Writing Have a Future? (2011) this work is optimistic about the potential of digital technology to expand, enhance, effectively “humanize” communication. More...
Does Writing Have a Future? (Flusser’s book)
Flusser’s voice sounds plaintive in this book. His own attachment to writing seems to intensify as he describes a contemporary weakening, thinning of “historical consciousness,” that consciousness that writing created and always sustained. For in...