Name: The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication (Metaflux // Vilém Flusser)
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Author: Vilém Flusser
ISBN: 9780993327254

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The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication (Metaflux // Vilém Flusser)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Vilém Flusser

Illustrated by

Rodrigo Maltez Novaes

Publisher

Metaflux Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x14.8x0.9 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9780993327254

Synopsis "The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication (Metaflux // Vilém Flusser)"

Originally written in both English and French, The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication is a series of twelve essays that Vilém Flusser delivered as lectures in Aix-en-Provence, France, on several subjects ranging from communication media, memory, symbols, meaning, models, art, cybernetics, the Bible, and Brigitte Bardot. Although written in 1975, this early phenomenological study of changing aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological models, and of the current fundamental revolution in the structure of human communication, is a visionary and provocative polemic that can help us understand, or at least, gain a better view of what is happening in the world around us today: big data, centralised media power, mass media conglomerates, political aesthetics etc. Unpublished for almost forty years, The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication, now published for the first time, edited from Vilém Flusser's original English typescript, is not only an important work from the author's mid career, just before the development of his seminal theories on technical images and technical imagination, but it also forms a continuous link with his other titles of the same period: Natural: Mind, Gestures, Mutation in Human Relations, Post-History, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and Towards a Philosophy of Photography.

Vilém Flusser

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Vilém Flusser (Prague, May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-Brazilian philosopher, writer, and journalist, known for his reflections on technology, communication, and the image in the post-industrial era
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Born into an intellectual Jewish family, Flusser began studying philosophy at Charles University in Prague in 1938. Following the Nazi occupation, he emigrated to London in 1939 and, the following year, moved to Brazil, where he lived until his death. In Brazil, he worked in various companies and began to develop his philosophical thought, publishing articles and books in Portuguese, German, English, and French.

Among his most notable works are Language and Reality (1963), Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983), and Vampyroteuthis infernalis (1987), a philosophical fable that explores the relationship between humans and the world. In Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Flusser analyzes photography as a transcendental act and its impact on the perception of reality.

Flusser died in 1991 in a car accident on the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia, the country he had left in his youth. His legacy continues to be an essential reference in studies on technology, communication, and contemporary philosophy.

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