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Vilem Flusser: On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual

Notes from interview with Flusser, 1988

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Captured on pad

2 main turning points in the history of mankind:

  1. linear writing
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    With writing, a new class of literary decision makers came about - 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

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

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

    With writing, this put things back into their place

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    An histroical experieince of the world came about with the literati

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    An historical experieince 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