writing and translation
Phenomenology, I think, is what makes Lambert Wiesing’s The Philosophy of Perception so startling. The book turns perception upside down. He’s saying, roughly, that perception determines and controls us, rather than the other way around. The...
Lambert_Wiesing’s book, The Philosophy of Perception (forthcoming from Bloomsbury this August–my translation) contains–among many fine things–a resolution to the question, “How do phenomenologists speak–or write–without appearing to persuade?” Protreptic writing does not argue a...
“The Gesture of Photographing,” the essay in which Flusser proposes a phenomenology of photography, appears for the first time in English in this month’s (December, 2011) issue of the Journal of Visual Culture. The article...
It seems to me perfectly fair to render the German word “Geste” as “gesture” in translating Flusser’s texts. It doesn’t seem to be a translation problem per se. The problem is that Flusser not only departs...