Description for Post-History
Paperback. Translator(s): Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilem Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser's first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term program, much in ... Read more
Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilem Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser's first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term program, much in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univocal Publishing LLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Univocal
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781937561093
SKU
V9781937561093
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About Vilem Flusser
Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) is increasingly recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of digital and global culture. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes is a translator and research fellow at the Vilem Flusser Archive.
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