Vilém Flusser

Finger, Anke; Guldin, Rainer; Bernardo, Gustavo

doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816674787.001.0001

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“…In the 1960s, Flusser's close friend Milton Vargas (1914-2011, engineer and professor of soil mechanics (Guldin and Bernardo, 2017), introduced the relatively new field of communication studies to Flusser (Hanke, 2020). In Brazil at this time, communication studies was still in its infancy.…”

Section: From Language To Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: The Contemporary Relevance of Vilém Flusser

Jóri

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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In this article, we introduce Vilém Flusser’s theoretical trajectory from the philosophy of language and multilingualism to communication and media theory. Our focus lies on his works Kommunikologie [ Communicology] and Kommunikologie weiter denken [ Thinking Communicology Further]. Kommunikologie, which was written in Flusser’s mid-career in the 1970s, but only published in the 1990s, consists of a set of articles and lectures and offers, among other notions, a great distinction between dialogue and discourse. The article takes this differentiation and explains its advantages and limitations. This leads to the introduction of the concept of algorithmic mediation as a ‘communicological’ take on current media developments. This also allows us to return to Flusser’s question about the disappearing home and the need for windows to the world. We hence offer a combination of different aspects of his work less as a tool for the analysis of current developments than as a call for action.

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Section: From Language To Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: The Contemporary Relevance of Vilém Flusser

Jóri

2023

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“…. ]’ (Flusser, 1981). Flusser’s inability to imagine technical images himself was the inspiration for Angenommen in the first place, as the book addresses video and computer artists.…”

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“…In 1966, when Flusser visited Europe as a delegate from the Department of Cultural Collaboration in Brazil’s Foreign Office, he tried several times to contact Bense in Stuttgart. And though he wrote in his report to the Foreign Office that they did indeed meet (Flusser, 1966), there is no related correspondence with Bense documented in the Vilém Flusser Archive. This is odd, as Flusser wrote letters to everyone with whom he could feasibly meet during his travels in Europe.…”

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Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image

Irrgang

2023

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The article discusses the technical image, a central concept in Vilém Flusser’s later main work Into the Universe of Technical Images (1985a). After identifying its various dimensions, the analysis frames the concept as an amalgamation of disciplines, theories, and artistic practices the cultural philosopher Flusser explored during the 1960s and especially the 1970s. In particular, the field of information aesthetics developed by Max Bense and Abraham A. Moles, among others, as well as artistic video practices in France and the United States played an important role in both Flusser’s biography and the formation of his technical image concept. At the same time, in Flusser’s cultural philosophy the technical image is the condition and result of a new kind of human imagination, which in this paper is specified as ‘projective imagination’.

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“…From this perspective, it seems that artificial intelligence technology in the digital era is incapable of ethical and aesthetic judgment and possessing knowledge information. Flusser thinks that in communication activities, various ideological discourses must package themselves as de-ideological, masquerading as scientific knowledge ( Finger et al, 2011 ; Poltronieri, 2014 ). He views the way technology operates as such an ideology, emphasizing that the way technology operates hides people’s behavioral patterns and that the way people operate becomes a technological apparatus that is ostensibly ideologically uninvolved.…”

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The blind spot of online creative idea generation studies: A perspective of media materiality

2022

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Online creative idea generation is often considered an extension of traditional creative idea activities on the Internet platform, in which digital technology plays an important role. Consistent with the studies on traditional creative idea activities, the studies on online creative idea generation take the creativity of mass psychology as the core, and believe that digital technology can stimulate people’s creative output. This study challenges the past research paradigm from the perspective of media materiality, redefines the processes and activities of online creative idea generation, and further suggests that it may affect people’s psychology by reducing their creativity without real awareness. The study is innovative in both theory and practice. We also discuss the limitations and future directions of the study.

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Vilém Flusser

Cited by 22 publications

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Introduction: The Contemporary Relevance of Vilém Flusser

Introduction: The Contemporary Relevance of Vilém Flusser

Projective Imagination: Vilém Flusser’s Concept of the Technical Image

The blind spot of online creative idea generation studies: A perspective of media materiality

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