Automated Memory
“Apparatus” is Flusser’s unavoidably cumbersome term for the mesh between humans and devices, an interface so familiar we rarely notice. When the enmeshed devices also mesh with one other, the resulting structures shape —...
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In general, a mechanical device that serves a particular purpose. In Flusser’s writing, a mesh of such devices with human beings.
apparatus
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...