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  • The Shape of Things

    by Vilem Flusser, Vilém Flusser

    This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilm Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of insightful essays on such ordinary 'things' as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationship between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and... (more)
  • Towards a Philosophy of Photography

    by Vilem Flusser, Vil¿m Flusser

    Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them. Flusser showed how the transformation of textual into visual culture (from the linearity of history into the... (more)