quote, vilem flusser, the surprising phenomenon of human communication, 23

What 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 it happens to me here and now…Every communication involves some type of intersubjective convention, some code agreed upon by those who participate in it. And every intersubjective convention, even the most apparently obvious one, like pointing with one’s finger, is “public” in the sense of being general, reversible, revocable, and capable of repetition.

Flusser, Vilem. The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication. Metapublishing, 2016., 23.

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