From c1be968ffdff3cb49e3bb73888a2b93e90e677f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simoon Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:28:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added Flusser intervoew notes --- notes/.DS_Store | Bin 0 -> 6148 bytes notes/flusser_interview_notes.md | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ notes/flusser_linear_writing.md | 24 ------------- 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) create mode 100644 notes/.DS_Store create mode 100644 notes/flusser_interview_notes.md delete mode 100644 notes/flusser_linear_writing.md diff --git a/notes/.DS_Store b/notes/.DS_Store new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5008ddfcf53c02e82d7eee2e57c38e5672ef89f6 GIT binary patch literal 6148 zcmeH~Jr2S!425mzP>H1@V-^m;4Wg<&0T*E43hX&L&p$$qDprKhvt+--jT7}7np#A3 zem<@ulZcFPQ@L2!n>{z**++&mCkOWA81W14cNZlEfg7;MkzE(HCqgga^y>{tEnwC%0;vJ&^%eQ zLs35+`xjp>T0Vilem Flusser: On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual -

Interview with Flusser, 1988

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Captured on pad

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2 main turning points in the history of mankind:

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  1. linear writing
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  2. the technical image
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The invention of writing was a social revolution

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Before writing, power was in the hands of magicians, who made decisions in function of ritual and magical volumes

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With writing, a new class of literary decision makers came about - the literati - e.g. priests, clerks

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With this came a completely different way of experiencing the world

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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

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Magician knew how to avoid punishment, was capable of manipulating destiny

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With writing, this put things back into their place

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An historical experience of the world came about with the literati

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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

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Those with a experience of linear writing think in a discursive, logical, causal way

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Causality took the place of destiny since the invention of linear writing

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Masters of the code of linear writing could explain the world in causal, proto-scientific and later a scientific way

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The greater part of society continued to live magically, in the cycles of the seasons, in the cycles of the feast

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The literati lived historically and governed history in function of their consciousness and used society as a tool for achieving historical goals

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“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

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