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Does Writing Have a Future?
Taschenbuch von Vilém Flusser
Sprache: Englisch

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In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém 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 the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under way. For Flusser, writing-despite its limitations when compared to digital media-underpins historical consciousness, the concept of progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new kinds of thought and expression.
In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém 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 the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under way. For Flusser, writing-despite its limitations when compared to digital media-underpins historical consciousness, the concept of progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new kinds of thought and expression.
Über den Autor
Vilém 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 writer and critic based in the United Kingdom. Mark Poster is professor of history at University of California, Irvine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
An Introduction to Vilém Flusser's Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future?

Mark Poster

Does Writing Have a Future?

Introduction

Superscript

Inscriptions

Notation

Letters of the Alphabet

Texts

Print

Instructions

Spoken Languages

Poetry

Ways of Reading

Deciphering

Books

Letters

Newspapers

Stationeries

Desks

Scripts

The Digital

Recoding

Subscript

Afterword to the Second Edition

Translator's Afterword and Acknowledgments

Nancy Roth

Translator's Notes

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816670239
ISBN-10: 0816670234
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Flusser, Vilém
Übersetzung: Roth, Nancy Ann
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 127 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Vilém Flusser
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,261 kg
Artikel-ID: 107157818
Über den Autor
Vilém 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 writer and critic based in the United Kingdom. Mark Poster is professor of history at University of California, Irvine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
An Introduction to Vilém Flusser's Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future?

Mark Poster

Does Writing Have a Future?

Introduction

Superscript

Inscriptions

Notation

Letters of the Alphabet

Texts

Print

Instructions

Spoken Languages

Poetry

Ways of Reading

Deciphering

Books

Letters

Newspapers

Stationeries

Desks

Scripts

The Digital

Recoding

Subscript

Afterword to the Second Edition

Translator's Afterword and Acknowledgments

Nancy Roth

Translator's Notes

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780816670239
ISBN-10: 0816670234
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Flusser, Vilém
Übersetzung: Roth, Nancy Ann
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 127 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Vilém Flusser
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2011
Gewicht: 0,261 kg
Artikel-ID: 107157818
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