Description: Further DetailsTitle: Does Writing Have a Future?Condition: NewEAN: 9780816670239ISBN: 9780816670239Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/24/2011Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 15mmTranslator: Nancy Ann RothContributor: Nancy Ann Roth (Translated by), Mark Poster (Introduction by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0816670234Description: In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing—and much that cannot be—can be recorded and transmitted by other means. Confirming Flusser’s status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under way. For Flusser, writing—despite its limitations when compared to digital media—underpins historical consciousness, the concept of progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new kinds of thought and expression.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Electronic MediationsAuthor: Vilem FlusserRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Does Writing Have a Future?
Title: Does Writing Have a Future?
EAN: 9780816670239
ISBN: 9780816670239
Release Date: 02/24/2011
Release Year: 2011
Translator: Nancy Ann Roth
Contributor: Mark Poster (Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0816670234
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Does Writing Have a Future?
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Handwriting, Communication Studies, Media Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Author: Vilém Flusser
Subject Area: Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5 in
Series: Electronic Mediations Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
