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Post-History

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Description for Post-History Paperback. Translator(s): Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilem Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of Post-History brings to an anglophone readership Flusser's first critique of apparatus as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term program, much in the same way that the seventeenth century is loosely characterized by the term nature, the eighteenth by reason, and the nineteenth by progress. In suggesting this shift in worldview, he then poses a provocative question: If I function within a predictable programmed reality, can I rebel and how can I do it? The answer comes swiftly: Only malfunctioning programs and apparatus allow for freedom. Throughout the twenty essays of Post-History, Flusser reminds us that any future theory of political resistance must consider this shift in worldview, together with the horrors that Western society has brought into realization because of it. Only then may we start to talk again about freedom.

Product Details

Publisher
Univocal Publishing LLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Univocal
Condition
New
Weight
252g
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781937561093
SKU
V9781937561093
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About Vilém Flusser
Vilem 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 Vilem Flusser Archive.

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