Wiesing: Phil. Perception

Thanks for looking at the site. It is about writing, a technology I think is not becoming obsolete, despite all the gloomy predictions.  There are some essays here that read like journalism, reviews of exhibitions or books.  There are also some essays that are more like my own experiments, accounts of small events or situations from experience — call them “non-fiction”. And there are a few poems.

The writing of the Czech philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) has been part of my thinking since my first acquaintance with it in 2003.  I have translated three of his books from German to English (translating is very close reading) and continue to work through many of his ideas, perhaps especially his understanding of writing in basic opposition to images in general and to photographs in particular.

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