writing and translation
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...
“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...
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...
Flusser is usually described as a philosopher. By “trade,” he was a critic — of language, photography, film, art, design, and social practice. He was also a teacher and someone who wrote critically...
In a typical contemporary art college, the range of media in active use resembles a core sample through the history of communications technology: students draw, carve, and cast; they also film, project and playback...
This is the title of an exhibition that opened a few days ago at the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol. The promotional copy mentions Flusser (http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/926) as having furnished some of supporting ideas for the exhibition....