Luxury
It has nothing to do with ostentation and need not be expensive. It has everything to do with inefficiency, wastefulness and impracticality. In this book, Lambert Wiesing sets out to simply describe luxury. Rather...
This Little Art
It’s not often that you read a book that seems to be written at least partly with you in mind. Kate Briggs’s This Little Art, from Fitzcarraldo Editions, is about translation. That simple declaration...
Art as Ritual
Flusser felt that the term “art”– in the West — was almost always understood either as “work”–intended to change the world—or as “communication”—intended to share something with another person. He thought both were wrong....
Photographic Translation
My contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Photography Theory has the working title “Out of Language: Photographing as Translating”. The essay emphasizes Flusser’s conviction about communication making worlds–generating meaning–by various means, e.g. drawing, speech,...
Revolution/Revelation
The image is a still from Paolo Ciregia’s project Perestroika, an account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. It was shown as part of the Diffusion 2017 festival in Cardiff, 1 –...
Family Photographs Online
It did seem reasonable to me, for a long time, that a website showing family photographs would be a way of stimulating an exchange among family members (the only viewers to whom the images...