diff --git a/Tasks_of_the_Contingent_Librarian/flusser_interview_notes.md b/Tasks_of_the_Contingent_Librarian/flusser_interview_notes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..674161b --- /dev/null +++ b/Tasks_of_the_Contingent_Librarian/flusser_interview_notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Vilem Flusser: On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual +============================================================================ + +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