The Society of the Screen
Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience
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2026
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-05122-4 (ISBN)
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-05122-4 (ISBN)
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How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilem 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, Vilem 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 Sao 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.
Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at NYU and a researcher in residence at the Vilem Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilem Fusser s Essays // Artforum, and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, October, and many other publications.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 210 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 241 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-05122-2 / 0262051222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-05122-4 / 9780262051224 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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