Category: history

Family Lexicon

Before I learned of Ginzburg’s book, I used the phrase “family lexicon”(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs. The project crashed and burned for the best...

The Devil and Time

The History of the Devil is the title of the second of three books Flusser wrote when he lived in Brazil (1940 – 1970), recently translated from Portuguese into English by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes...

Drawing and magic

I did the second Mediascape lecture today–the title was drawing, although the idea was broader–prehistoric media, that is, media before writing.  It was meant to include carving, modelling — probably “performance” (some kinds).  But...