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How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser's early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens. Predicting the importance of technology and images in the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilém Flusser warned, "the basic structure of our thinking is about to experience a mutation." The bewitching images and screens that surround us could lead toward a centrally programmed, totalitarian society--or another, better one characterized by dialogue and collaboration among humans and new forms of intelligence. In this book on the idiosyncratic and prescient Czech-Brazilian philosopher, art historian and critic Martha Schwendener explores the profound effect of art on Flusser's thought. The Society of the Screen reveals how Flusser's lifelong engagement with experimental practices--from abstract painting and concrete poetry in Brazil to video, cybernetics, and photography in Europe and the United States--as well as his extensive involvement with the São Paulo Biennial informed his belief that we were moving from "history"--a civilization informed by linear writing--into "post-history," dominated by technical images. The book delves deeply into how Flusser's ideas evolved, particularly in correspondence and collaboration with artists like Mira Schendel, Fred Forest, Wen-Ying Tsai, Harun Farocki, Louis Bec, and Karl Gerstner.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Schwendener, Martha
- ISBN: 9780262051224
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 406
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English