Writing and Roaming
Roaming is a small community interest group I work with, based in Penzance, near the western tip of this island. The group — usually around 6 or 7, but it varies — has established...
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One kind of communication code among others, such as painting, or film or photography
Cousin Tom, writing and reading
Yesterday my cousin Tom posted a text on Facebook, introducing an experiment. The idea was, first, to check on who actually read his posts (and was willing to follow the instructions), and second, to kick-start a bit...
Reading Flusser
The article “The Protreptic Writer” is now available the special issue of Flusser Studies on the theme Flusser as a writer. In it, I try to share my own experience of reading Flusser — an experience...
Does Writing Have a Future? (Flusser’s book)
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...