Notes on the Gesture of Writing
I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay. The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn’t get to what I would call...
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The Handbook of Visual Culture
Copyright 2012! This new volume from Berg Publishers, edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell, will be launched very shortly…I’m very pleased to be among the contributors, with an essay on Flusser’s understanding of...
Thinking Fast and Slow
This is the title of Daniel Kahneman’s remarkable new book. It describes and evaluates two very different types of thinking in quite considerable detail: “intuition” (fast), and something more like calculation, or rational thinking(slow). Kahnemann...
“The Gesture of Photographing”
“The Gesture of Photographing,” the essay in which Flusser proposes a phenomenology of photography, appears for the first time in English in this month’s (December, 2011) issue of the Journal of Visual Culture. The article...
What to translate
“To class a source-text as worth translating is to dignify it immediately and to involve it in a dynamic of magnification (subject, naturally, to later review and even, perhaps dismissal)” George Steiner, After Babel,...
Shooting the Past: Archives and Creativity
I just uploaded a conference paper called “Computing the Past” (under Writing>Papers). It describes Steven Poliakoff’s TV drama, Shooting the Past, as a conflict between two different ways of valuing photographic archives: as a...