writing and translation
Flusser’s voice sounds plaintive in this book. His own attachment to writing seems to intensify as he describes a contemporary weakening, thinning of “historical consciousness,” that consciousness that writing created and always sustained. For in...
Suppose photographing is, as Flusser contended, an act of projecting, rather than “capturing” extant meaning. Rather than constituting records, then, photographs propose possibilities, sometimes in tremendously persuasive detail. Photographs are what comes of reaching...
Suppose Flusser is “wrong” about most things. He could only be wrong in the sense of someone working within a scientific model–probably a rather narrow one at that, someone who expects to predict something,...
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...
Flusser himself treated translation as a form of creativity, a means of generating new thoughts from others he had already written down. He wrote in four languages, consciously choosing one as the most appropriate...