Vilém Flusser was one of the most fascinating and original European thinkers of the late twentieth century. In this collection of his essays on emigration, nationalism, and information theory, he raises questions about the viability of ideas of national identity in a world whose borders are becoming increasingly arbitrary and permeable. Flusser argues that modern societies are in flux, with traditional linear and textual epistemologies being challenged by global circulatory networks and a growth in visual stimulation. Beyond globalization, Flusser's ideas about communication and identity are rooted in the Judeo-Christian concept of self-determination and self-realization through recognition of the other.

The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Vilém Flusser

Philosophy

University of Illinois Press

Science is interesting precisely because it relates to me. It is a human function just as much as breathing is: it is an existential interest. And an entirely objective science would be uninteresting, inhuman. The search for scientific objectivity is revealing itself, in its continual advancement, not as a search for "purity," but as pernicious madness. The present demands that we give up the ideal of objectivity in favour of other intersubjective scientific methods. De te fabula narratur. Thus starts this paranaturalist treatise by VilémFlusser. Author of the seminal Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1984) and Ins Universum der Technischen Bilder (1985), Flusser introduces us here to an infernal creature from the oceanic abysses, our long lost relative, who slowly emerges, not from the oceans, but from our own depths to gaze spitefully into our eyes and reflect back at us our own existence. Originally written in Portuguese and German, it was published in German in 1987, this version has been edited andtranslated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School, fromthe original, unpublished and extended Brazilian-Portuguese version of the manuscript found at the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Universität der Kunst, Berlin. This edition is also accompanied by a selection of previously unpublished excerpts from Flusser's correspondence with Milton Vargas and Dora Ferreira da Silva, with whom he discussed the development of the present text.

Vil M Flusser S Brazilian Vampyroteuthis Infernalis

Atropos Press

Towards a philosophy of photography

European Photography

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