Into the Universe of Technical Images

Vilem Flusser

• Other Authors Nancy Ann Roth (Translator), Mark Poster (Introduction)
• Title

  Into the Universe of Technical Images

• Date 2011
• ISBN 9780816670215
• Publisher Minnesota, MN; University of Minnesota Press
• Description 224 p; 8 in.
• Language English (translated from German)
• Summary

  Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser 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. Into the Universe of Technical Images outlines the history of communication technology as a process of increasing abstraction. (University of Minnesota Press)

• Tags Philosophy, Photography, Technology, Media studies