Reading Flusser
The article “The Protreptic Writer” is now available the special issue of Flusser Studies on the theme Flusser as a writer. In it, I try to share my own experience of reading Flusser — an experience...
Category: writing
Protreptic Writing
I am grateful to Lambert Wiesing for having described and named a form of writing that does not set out to demonstrate the truth or value of the author’s views as such, but provides...
The Gesture of Writing
Flusser’s “The Gesture of Writing,” along with my notes about it, has just been published in New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Taylor and Francis) vol 9...
Flusser the Writer
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...
Wittgenstein and site-writing
Wittgenstein’s short paragraphs, with their relative self-sufficiency, economy, variety, even the implied have a certain resemblance to blog posts!