Category: Flusser for Anglophones

words and phrases of Flusser’s that may lose or gain significantly in translation from German to English.

Image and Imagine

The German verb “einbilden” is ordinarily translated into English as “imagine.”  But at one point in Into the Universe of Technical Images, Flusser calls attention to the difference between “einbilden” and the cognate “imaginieren”.  Expressing his gratitude to Kant for...

Science and Sentimentality

Flusser translated the title of his essay “Geste und Gestimmtheit” as “Gesture and Sentimentality”.  I didn’t.  I found, and to some extent still find that particular word misleading at best. Its equivalence to “Gestimmtheit” is almost...