writing and translation
Flusser’s voice sounds plaintive in this book. His own attachment to writing seems to intensify as he describes a contemporary weakening, thinning of “historical consciousness,” that consciousness that writing created and always sustained. For in...
Flusser’s term Apparat, which can only be apparatus in English, has a pivotal position in his thinking about media. The word is not perfect, because it sounds like a machine. But it refers to a...
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...
Suppose photographing is, in fact, an act of projecting, rather than “capturing” extant meaning. Rather than records, then, photographs present possibilities, sometimes in tremendously persuasive detail. Photographs are what comes of using our tools...
Flusser is usually described as a philosopher. By “trade,” he was a critic — of language, photography, film, art, design, and social practice. He was also a teacher and someone who wrote critically...
This is the title of an exhibition that opened a few days ago at the Arnolfini Museum in Bristol. The promotional copy mentions Flusser (http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/926) as having furnished some of supporting ideas for the exhibition....