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Notes on Vilém Flusser’s Philosophy of Photography: Chapter 1, the Image

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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code / decode / encode / flusser / gaze / image / metacode / photography / significance / surface / textuality

Goraczka, Tomasz Setowski Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, “something ‘out there’.” Images are reduced from “four dimensions of space and time” to “two surface dimensions.” (8) Imagination is this specific ability to abstract surfaces out of space and time and to project them back into space and time. Imagination is the precondition for producing and decoding images. “The ability to encode phenomena into […]

Flusser Studies Call for Papers

Thursday, May 24, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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call for papers / flusser

Was surfing around the ‘net and found an interesting call for papers by the Flusser Studies group. Strangely enough, though the call for papers and website is in English, their last online issue seems to have been published entirely in Spanish. They claim this ‘multi-lingual’ approach is itself Flusserian, as he himself translated and retranslated his work into several languages–is there something here close to Deleuze’s idea that the unconscious is not structured like one […]

Vile’m Flusser (Philosophy of Photography: The Image)

Thursday, May 24, 2007
by Taylor Adkins
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flusser / philosophy of photography

Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, “something ‘out there’.” Images are reduced from “four dimensions of space and time” to “two surface dimensions.” (8) Imagination is this specific ability to abstract surfaces out of space and time and to project them back into space and time. Imagination is the precondition for producing and decoding images. “The ability to encode phenomena into two-dimensional symbols and […]