Flusser
admin September 20th, 2009
4 human communication makes us forget context
8 communication – a system is changed by another system
or so that information is greater at the end of the process
9 structures of code
10 aim of theory communication is to explain how many opposes nature
how do codes originate
11 they are the results of conventions that establish symbols and rules
but not always!
12 convention must be stated in a previous code
13 denoting! Connotation (more pre Barthes)
14 to discover the denotation or connotation we have to de ideologize the code
15 majority of codes are visual, audio, or audiovisual
16 three types of symbols
17 systematic analysis may lead to method of de-ideologization (knowing how codes are constructed will let us deal better w/representations)
dynamic – attention from codes to senders and receivers
18 lecture vs dialogue
19 mass media and dialogue (here we see early thoughts relevant to social media)
20 but then there will be no private space – so space outside of information
21 we’ve been interested in lines, but now we need to pay attention to surfaces
23 difference is of time
24 historically given points vs historically given surfaces
25 written lines impose structure – the represent world by a point sequence
26 surfaces represent the world by static images
27 to know is to learn how to read the media (referent is almost always absent in its physicality)
three realms – image, immediate experience, concept
fiction relates to face via symbols
28 conceptual and imaginal
29 immediate experience abandoned for image
30 we now move to image, explanation of image, image of explanation
imaginal thought becomes capable of thinking about concepts
31 we are in spiral movement – image to concept to image
32 or from myth to history to structure
33 we are not interested in just history – but combining various histories! History is a game!
35 the explosion of colors
surface carried
36 points to importance of two dimensional codes
postmodern images are the products of technology
37 imagination means the ability to reduce the situation to scene
38 time orders things into positions
writing unrolls the image into lines
39 with writing, history begins
40 photograph is the image of a series of concepts
** Crisis of values is the move from linear world of explanation to techno world of models
by model – the image of a concept of a scene
42 critique of photography
critical thinking results from linear writing
43 original purpose was to critique images
but photography is based on technology, and thus is itself based on critical thinking – critical thinking cannot be applied to it
or you are just critiquing critical thinking
46 at some point, one begins critiquing criteria
47 photo doesn’t discover meanings, it gives them
values denoted to criteria for programming
*49 critiquing photography is a moment of self criticism
52 meaning of new
58 divulgence – media culture is a type of treason
61 a networked groups linked by cable cold rule
63 Future of writing – tendency toward two dimensional codes
67 techno image/techno imagination
future of writing is to write pretexts, while believing one writes for utopia
69 reason has moved from analysis to de-ideologization
to write will mean program
70 images should become more portable
73 image meanings – revelation from stepping back from real world. Private offering to a public history. Method for programming the behavior of functionaries in postindustrial society
74 no technical necessity for sending images ..they can just as well be sent back and forth
with changes come a fourth meaning – disembodied surface.
75 new media can offer new communicative models
76 subject and object can no longer be separated
77-8 examples of models that store information needing replacement
78 while artists use new media for personal purposes, scientists only see objective purposes. We need both.
83 models are tools for orientation in the world
85 material and form
86 theory becomes modeling
87 we now invent materials for worked out forms (i.e., invent Second Life for community/ or Facebook for friendships)
HEAVEN and earth – split of experiences under question/categories under question
91 interpersonal communication – gaps b/w different positions and bridged to cross the gaps
Taking up residence chapter can be related to “home” of new media. Homepage, for instance….
104 data transformation is a synonym for creation
105 we are in a period of expulsion
109 exile allows for the new, creativity
110 imagination
111 images block the path to the objects they mediate
112 image criticism by linear writing is not radical enough
one must calculate images
113 images are computations
114 images of new imagination are 2 dimensional b/c they project from 0 dimension calculations
115 image can serve as a calculation – model of future way of dealing with things
*116 when we produce images of calculations rather than facts, we get true expression
117 mythical being
118 posthistorical is chance
123 posthistorical man is an object to know
we are becoming postideological, posthistorical men
124 programming – see Lyotard / which is posed against “natural” mythic (Programmed is TV, for instance)
*126 photograph is first posthistorical image – sets linear text into the image
prehistoric image is subjective/stored in memory/magical
127 linear writing replaces magic with consciousness
creates explanation of image (image no longer lived experience)
images become more conceptual/texts more imaginative – the dynamic of history
128 images are not a process, but a scene / photographs jam history
129 photos are information produced from isolated possibilities
they are computed possibilities – not imagination but visualization
132 narrative is not the model for historical events. That is film.
139 the difference b/w things that surround us and inherited things
140 there is a contradiction b/w our thinking historically and the things that surround us
we think of categories that belong to a past
143 difficulty in describing end of history – it’s narrative
hard to separate history from storytelling
145 telling the one and long history cannot be told
why can’t we tell stories? They turn in circles
150 literary work is answer and provocation
160 we have to measure
161 we have a hierarchy of orders each contains smaller ones while being contained by larger ones – what do we do when we jump from measure to measure
163 new technologies complicate the I
165 move to leisure -
167 since 15th century we have forgotten importance of theoretical leisure
theory became technology
168 we forget how idleness is the core of human culture
169 the future is in programming
170 one’s OWN programming
171 the conclusion about others and programming seems to take the “social” aspect of social media to heights of personal interaction
174 culture and civilization are strategies for the generation of human individuals
everything related is an abstraction
relationships are when information is stored
175 the village does not open theoretical space
176 village free time is antiacademic
• theory is the connecting force of intrahuman relationships, to which we owe the production of information
177 the entire citizenry will produce information in a setting of leisurely dialogue w/out friction, to program the marketplace and private residence to take of the temple mount
city as topology not geography
these are networked relationships – making the city everywhere
178 city is a fold that attracts relations
all humans connected in some way that information is subsumed in more and more new fields
theory not a discovery of truth, but PROJECTION of meaning
188 humanization is making a mammal into a no more animal
192 style
193 treatises and essays
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