writing and translation
“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...
“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,...
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...
