fromhow, 2010

VILEM FLUSSER

A Text on Design [PDF]

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Flusser’s essays

are short, provocative and lucid, with a resemblance to the style of journalistic articles. One of the difficulties that arise while reading Flusser is the lack of references, quotations or illustrations; his articles seem to be articulated with the originality and freshness of the new. (Cubitt 2004)

Flusser’s writings relate to each other, which means that he intensively works over certain topics and dissects them into a number of brief essays. His main topics interest were: writing, the technical image, photography, migration, philosophy, media and literature, and, especially in his later years, the philosophy of communication and of artistic production.