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Continue reading →: vilem flusser on religion, memory and synthetic image (1990)
Vilém Flusser, On religion, memory and synthetic image. Interview by László Beke and Miklós Peternák in Budapest, the 7th of April 1990. In: Miklós Peternák (Hrsg.), „We shall survive in the memory of others“. Vilém Flusser, Köln 2010 (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 87min), 13min30s
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Continue reading →: video of vilem flusser on writing, complexity and the technical revolutions
On 7 minutes, 58 seconds Flusser speaks about images as articulations of thoughts, projections, models. New models are needed, of rearticulating images. He mentions Walter Benjamin and that we are currently or at least during Flusser’s time, in the framework of Benjamin’s understanding of the image. This must be viewed…
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Continue reading →: quote, wallace stevens, the necessary angel, 136The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things; but if this constitutes a certain single characteristic, it is the source not of a certain single value but as many values as reside in the possibilities of things Stevens, Wallace. The Necessary Angel., 136.
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quote, erik davis, techgnosis, 189.
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Continue reading →: quote, erik davis, techgnosis, 189.The logic of technology has become invisible–literally, occult. Without the code, you’re mystified. And nobody has all the codes anymore. Erik Davis, Techgnosis, 189.
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Continue reading →: quote, vilem flusser, the surprising phenomenon of human communication, 23What I mean is the very simple and brutal fact that there is no possible form of communication that can communicate concrete experience to others. Concrete experience is essentially private; it is unique in the sense of being irreversible, irrevocable, and incapable of repetition, because it is my experience, as…
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Continue reading →: quote, michel serresThe only pure myth is the idea of a science devoid of all myth. Michel Serres
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quote, by erik davis, techgnosis, xxv
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Continue reading →: quote, by erik davis, techgnosis, xxv…we cannot afford to think in the Manichaean terms that often characterize the debate on new technologies. Technology is neither a devil nor an angel. But neither is it simply a “tool,” a neutral extension of some rock-solid human nature. Technology is a trickster, and it has been so since…
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Continue reading →: quote, alfred north whitehead, science and the modern world, 275.Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something tht gives meaning to all that passes, and…


