Vilem Flusser: An Introduction

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Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) has long been known and celebrated in Europe and Brazil primarily as a media theorist. Only recently have other facets of his accomplishments come to light, clearly establishing Flusser as a key thinker. An accessible and thorough introduction to Flusser's thought, this book reveals his engagement with a wide array of disciplines, from communication studies, posthuman philosophy, media studies, and history to art and art history, migrant studies, anthropology, and film studies.

Anke Finger is associate professor of German studies and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. Rainer Guldin is professor of German language and cultural studies at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Gustavo Bernardo is professor of literary theory at Rio de Janeiro State University (URJ), Brazil.

"Flusser is one of our lost gems-the other McLuhan, and dare I say the better. A global citizen writing alternately in German, Portuguese, English, or French, Flusser meditated on words and gestures, translation and doubt, cities and images. He was a master of the essay form. I believe he had the ear of both gods and men. In this important book on Flusser we are introduced for the first time in English to perhaps our greatest media philosopher." -Alexander R. Galloway, New York University "Flusser is one of the world's most interesting theorists of communication and culture, yet his work is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, and Gustavo Bernardo are the most qualified scholars in the world to provide this contextualizing introduction to the complex array of his work." -Douglas Kellner, UCLA