writing and translation
Is it “good”? Technically, it’s OK–comprehensible, decent colour, decent resolution. The family doesn’t look hysterically happy; everyone seems a little introspective by contemporary standards.. But it’s from 1947–probably the shot for the Christmas card. Another possible...
The issue, for me, seems to be how illustration is different from art (obviously a lot of images are either, depending on the way you define the categories). For now, I’m thinking that for...
Dave Griffiths is a filmmaker who thinks seriously about history, and who has clearly been affected by Flusser’s thought. He is the kind of practitioner I’m sure Flusser meant by the term Einbildner (I...
Enterprising research students at the University of Edinburgh have invited me to be a keynote speaker at a weekend conference they’re hosting this coming October. I am honored! It coincides with the work of...
Now that we’ve all become publishers, we may think about such abstruse things as the difference between a post and a page. Maybe a post is a bit of news; a page is more...
I saw this painting at the National Gallery about ten days ago, at the same time I received some thought-provoking criticisms of my Flusser translations. It made me want to clarify–and defend–my sense of...