family projections
Flusser insisted that photographs project possibilities, rather than “capturing” or “recording” or “reproducing” anything. So all those lovely shots you may have of yourself as a very young child, smiling at the camera–or not...
Category: art
Art as Ritual
Flusser felt that the term “art”– in the West — was almost always understood either as “work”–intended to change the world—or as “communication”—intended to share something with another person. He thought both were wrong....
Revolution/Revelation
The image is a still from Paolo Ciregia’s project Perestroika, an account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. It was shown as part of the Diffusion 2017 festival in Cardiff, 1 –...
Protreptic Writing
I am grateful to Lambert Wiesing for having described and named a form of writing that does not set out to demonstrate the truth or value of the author’s views as such, but provides...