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Does Writing Have a Future?
Vilém Flusser
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Paperback. Translator(s): Roth, Nancy Ann. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFD; UD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 205 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilem Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing-and much that cannot be-can be recorded and transmitted by other means. Confirming Flusser's status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out ... Read more
In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilem Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing-and much that cannot be-can be recorded and transmitted by other means. Confirming Flusser's status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Electronic Mediations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816670239
SKU
V9780816670239
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About Vilém Flusser
Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) was born in Prague; emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper colum; and later moved to France. Among his many books that have been translated into English are The Shape of Things, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, The Freedom of the Migrant, and Writings (Minnesota, 2004). Nancy Ann Roth is an arts ... Read more
Reviews for Does Writing Have a Future?
Perhaps a turn to Flusser will change the disregard for media that so characterizes the cultural theory of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. For Flusser, however flamboyant and polemical his writing at times is, thought deeply about the emergence of electronic media and its implications for not only Western but truly global culture. -Mark Poster, from the Introduction ... Read more