Into the Universe of Technical Images
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Electronic Mediations
ISBN-10
0816670218
ISBN-13
9780816670215
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Imprint
University of Minnesota Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 24th, 2011
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
266 grams
Dimensions
12.50 x 20.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Media studies
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An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.
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. First published in German in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, Into the Universe of Technical Images outlines the history of communication technology as a process of increasing abstraction.
Flusser charts how communication evolved from direct interaction with the world to mediation through various technologies. The invention of writing marked one significant shift; the invention of photography marked another, heralding the current age of the technical image. The automation of the processing of technical images carries both promise and threat: the promise of freeing humans to play and invent and the threat for networks of automation to proceed independently of humans.
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