General Information

Uniform Title

Kommunikologie.

Author/Creator

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991, author.

Language

English.

Published

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2023.

Physical Description

xv, 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Series

Sensing media (Series)

Contributors

Contributor

Novaes, Rodrigo Maltez, (editor, translator.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first ever thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomena that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication," "What are Codes," and "What is Technical Imagination" the work touches on theatre, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser's theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the pre-digital 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy"--

Subjects

Subject

Communication > Philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Vilém Flusser ; edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes.

Series

Sensing media: aesthetics, philosophy, and cultures of media

Note

Translation of: Kommunikologie.

Content

What is communication? -- What are codes? -- What is technical imagination?

Available in another form

Print version: Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991. Communicology Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 9781503633261 (DLC) 2022012332

ISBN

9781503634497

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	302.2 FLU		Reference	-

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