Does Writing Have a Future? - Brossura

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Flusser, Vilem

 
9780816670239: Does Writing Have a Future?
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ISBN 10: 0816670234 ISBN 13: 9780816670239
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2011

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816670234
ISBN 13 
9780816670239
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
178
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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