Epistemology Engine
Fine turn of phrase! It’s a device that people of a given time and place recognise as a metaphor for knowledge. The “engine” bit implies that the image drives the acquisition of knowledge. In...
Tagged: Flusser
Notes on the Gesture of Writing
I asked the students on the MA Illustration: Authorial Practice course to read the essay. The discussion ranged far and wide, as usual, and I fear we didn’t get to what I would call...
The Handbook of Visual Culture
Copyright 2012! This new volume from Berg Publishers, edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell, will be launched very shortly…I’m very pleased to be among the contributors, with an essay on Flusser’s understanding of...
“The Gesture of Photographing”
“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...
technical images
It’s among the most central–and difficult–of the terms Flusser introduced. It suggests, loosely, “digital” images, “mass” media, “new” media. But it is both more and less than any of these. The phrase is awkward, perhaps...
Into the Universe of Technical Images (Flusser’s book)
Especially compared to either Towards a Philosophy of Photography (English translation, 2000) or Does Writing Have a Future? (2011) this work is optimistic about the potential of digital technology to expand, enhance, effectively “humanize” communication. More...