Vilem Flusser

Does Writing Have a Future?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A prescient exploration of the fate of the book in the digital age.

Produktdetails

• Electronic Mediations
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780816670239
• ISBN-10: 0816670234
• Artikelnr.: 32739545

Autorenporträt

Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) was born in Prague; emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper colum; and later moved to France. Among his many books that have been translated into English are The Shape of Things, Towards a Philosophy of Photography, The Freedom of the Migrant, and Writings (Minnesota, 2004). Nancy Ann Roth is an arts writer and critic based in the United Kingdom. Mark Poster is professor of history at University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

An Introduction to Vilém Flusser's Into the Universe of Technical Images
and Does Writing Have a Future?
Mark Poster
Does Writing Have a Future?
Introduction
Superscript
Inscriptions
Notation
Letters of the Alphabet
Texts
Print
Instructions
Spoken Languages
Poetry
Ways of Reading
Deciphering
Books
Letters
Newspapers
Stationeries
Desks
Scripts
The Digital
Recoding
Subscript
Afterword to the Second Edition
Translator's Afterword and Acknowledgments
Nancy Roth
Translator's Notes
Index