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The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser's Radical Prescience

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Availability:In StockContributor:Martha SchwendenerPublish date:3/17/2026Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262051224ISBN-10:262051222UPC:9780262051224Book Category:Philosophy, Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Individual Philosophers, History, Media StudiesBook Topic:20th & 21st CenturySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCQK6N2EF0

The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser's Radical Prescience

How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser's early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.

Predicting the importance of technology and images for the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilém Flusser warned, "the basic structure of our thinking is about to experience a mutation." The bewitching images and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262051224ISBN-10:262051222UPC:9780262051224Book Category:Philosophy, Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Individual Philosophers, History, Media StudiesBook Topic:20th & 21st CenturySize:9.40 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SCQK6N2EF0
Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University and a researcher in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Fusser's Essays // Artforum, and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, October, and many...
Publisher: MIT Press

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