Into the Universe of Technical Images
Vilém Flusser
Abstract
Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communications crisis, this book forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change. First published in German in 1985, this book outlines the history of communications technology as a process of increasing abstraction. The book charts how communication evolved from direct interaction with the world to mediation through various technologies. The invention of writing marked one significant shift; the invention of photog ... More
Keywords: communications crisis, communications technology, abstraction, writing, photography, technical image, invent, networks, automation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816670208 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816670208.001.0001 |
