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Introducing Flusser Introducing Flusser
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Significant Texts Significant Texts
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Language and Reality Language and Reality
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The History of the Devil The History of the Devil
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Posthistory Posthistory
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Toward a Philosophy of Photography, Into the Universe of Technical Images, and Does Writing Have a Future? Toward a Philosophy of Photography, Into the Universe of Technical Images, and Does Writing Have a Future?
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Vampyrotheutis infernalis Vampyrotheutis infernalis
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Supposed: A Succession of Scenes Supposed: A Succession of Scenes
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Gestures: Attempt toward a Phenomenology Gestures: Attempt toward a Phenomenology
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Rootless: A Philosophical Autobiography Rootless: A Philosophical Autobiography
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The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
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Brazil or the Search for a New Human: Toward a Phenomenology of Underdevelopment Brazil or the Search for a New Human: Toward a Phenomenology of Underdevelopment
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Being Jewish: Essays, Letters, Fictions Being Jewish: Essays, Letters, Fictions
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From Subject to Project: On Becoming Human From Subject to Project: On Becoming Human
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Communicology Communicology
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Flusser, Interdisciplinarily Flusser, Interdisciplinarily
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About This Book About This Book
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Extract
In a short text titled “My Atlas,” Vilém Flusser recounts conversations with a fictitious grandfather, a writer, concerning this grandfather’s treasured atlases: “The first atlas served him to localize an event he wanted to describe. The second served to acquire an overview of all the events. In that sense, and thanks to these two atlases, he could simultaneously dive into the world and surface again.” But a crisis of orientation ensued, creating a plethora of atlases: they began to explode into different directions at the end of the twentieth century. The resulting and overwhelming variety undermined the atlases’ very purpose of providing reliable direction because, according to Flusser, they exploded “in different directions at the same time: in one they obtained colors … in another the atlases began to zoom…. A third direction of this explosion was the covering of one map with another…. In yet another direction history exploded into geography and there were historical atlases.” This crisis presented a considerable challenge for the grandfather: “He leafed through these atlases and he noticed how history could be skimmed (blätterbar) rather than continue to flow. History now looked like a badly projected film: Events began to disintegrate in that scenes suddenly leaped.”1Close For the grandfather, this new, colorful landscape of atlases became an imaginative play with history, but it also plunged him into abysmal chaos. In the end, to find his bearings within all these wonderful but confusing possibilities of mapping the world and its history, he purposefully returned to his own old and outdated atlases in search of meaning and balance.
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