Imagining
Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist’s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous,...
Category: creativity
Experiments in Photography
Revelations: Experiments in Photography will open at the Science Museum in London on 20 March. I’m reviewing it for Source, and looking foward to seeing images I’ve liked for a very long time,...
Mira Schendel and Tate Papers
Unaccustomed as we may be to thinking of an artist as having “influenced” a philosopher, rather than the other way around, it seems clear that Mira Schendel had considerable impact on Vilem Flusser. I’ve...
A “good” photograph
Is it “good”? Technically, it’s OK–comprehensible, decent colour, decent resolution. The family doesn’t look hysterically happy; everyone seems a little introspective by contemporary standards.. But it’s from 1947–probably the shot for the Christmas card. Another possible...
Babel Fiche
Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser’s thought. He is the kind of practitioner I’m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I...
Making Sparks
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, depicts creativity as a gap between two distinct, independently coherent human bodies. A complex and controversial visualisation of the account of Creation given in the Biblical Book of Genesis,...