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+Vilem Flusser: On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual
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+Vilém Flusser - Interview by Miklós Peternák in München, 17th October,
+1991 (38')[Vimeo link](https://vimeo.com/162190212)
+
+[Captured on pad](https://pad.xpub.nl/p/flusser_interview_notes)
+
+2 main turning points in the history of mankind:
+
+1)  linear writing
+2)  the technical image
+
+**The invention of writing was a social revolution**
+
+Before writing, power was in the hands of magicians, who made decisions
+in function of ritual and magical volumes
+
+With writing, a new class of literary decision makers - the literati -
+came about e.g. priests, clerks
+
+With this came a completely different way of experiencing the world
+
+Magicians: the world was space in which time circled, by circling it put
+all the objects that had left their place into their just place; a world
+of crime and retribution
+
+Magician knew how to avoid punishment, was capable of manipulating
+destiny
+
+With writing, this put things back into their place
+
+An historical experience of the world came about with the literati
+
+Time no longer circulated, but became a univocal stream which flew form
+the past to the future, with all the objects swimming in the stream
+
+Those with a experience of linear writing think in a discursive,
+logical, causal way
+
+Causality took the place of destiny since the invention of linear
+writing
+
+Masters of the code of linear writing could explain the world in causal,
+proto-scientific and later a scientific way
+
+The greater part of society continued to live magically, in the cycles
+of the seasons, in the cycles of the feast
+
+The literati lived historically and governed history in function of
+their consciousness and used society as a tool for achieving historical
+goals
+
+"the invention of historical writing is a social revolution", but also a
+revolution on the level of consicenceness, as it is an emergence of
+historical from magical vision