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Towards Technosophy
(2022)
Vilém Flusser is considered one of the pioneers of media philosophy, not only due to his interest in new technologies and the role in culture and art he attributed to them. He proposed (media theoretical) models for the analysis of the “telematic society”, photography, television, computing, contemporary media art or political events from a mass media perspective, but more importantly, he has drawn attention to the shift in the “structure of thinking” that can be observed as much as it calls for a new philosophy. The summer school was staged at the amphitheater close to Flusser’s former residence in Robion in Southern France, where participants from more than 10 countries engaged in dialogue with Flusser’s thinking, through different media and techniques, as well as in dialogue with each other.
This book is dedicated to the media philosophy of Vilém Flusser. It is a collection of reflections based on his thinking about media and digital culture. The authors come from different countries, cultures and academic disciplines and have embarked on the daring experiment of a joint summer school in the south of France without knowing each other or the teachers and guests beforehand. What brought us together was our common interest in Flusser and certainly also our curiosity about the differences in our interpretations.
The authors of the following essays had not originally planned to produce a book, but another, much more lively project, as fleeting as the years and the seasons themselves. We were organizing an international summer school coinciding with the 100th birthday of the media philosopher Vilém Flusser, in the week of 12 May 2020, at his last residence in Robion (southern France). The aim was to bring together interested students, artists and media philosophers, to honour Flusser’s life’s work, to bring more attention to individual expertise and scholarly exegeses, and to invite people to reflect on the present and future of media technology in his spirit without falling into orthodoxies.