Language and Reality - Couverture souple

Flusser, Vilém

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517904285 ISBN 13 : 9781517904289

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Language and Reality, originally published in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, Vilém Flusser continues his philosophical and theoretical exploration into language. He begins to postulate that language is not simply a map of the world but also the driving force for projecting worlds and enters then into a feedback with what is projected.

Flusser's thesis leads him to claim, in a seemingly missed encounter of a dialogue with Wittgenstein, that language is not limited to its ontological and epistemological aspects but rather is at the service of its aesthetic. Traversing a diverse area of research and ruminations on cybernetics to poetry, music, the visual arts, religion, and mysticism, Language and Reality can be viewed as a vital transitional work in Flusser's emerging thought that will eventually lead to his works in the 1970s and 1980s concerning what we would later consider media theory, design, and digital culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) is increasingly recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of digital and global culture.

Rodrigo Maltez Novaes is a translator and research fellow at the Vilém Flusser Archive.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517904285
• ISBN 13: 9781517904289
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
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