Imagens técnicas e o pensamento imagético em Vilém Flusser: diálogos para uma epistemologia da imaginação

This article discusses the topic of technical images in Vilém Flusser. Considering the current context characterized by the proliferation of surfaces and technical devices of image reproduc-tion, Flusser proposes a new cognitive skill. This faculty, called te-chnoimagination, would help understandin...

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Author: Daniel Melo Ribeiro
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repository:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/43188
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5380/2238-0701.2019n19-11
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/43188
https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-0840-2587
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Aparelho
Imagem
Imagem técnica
Vilém Flusser
Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991
Imagens Interpretação
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Summary:This article discusses the topic of technical images in Vilém Flusser. Considering the current context characterized by the proliferation of surfaces and technical devices of image reproduc-tion, Flusser proposes a new cognitive skill. This faculty, called te-chnoimagination, would help understanding how technical images operate, stimulating a critical thinking about images. In order to ela-borate this argument, this article brings a brief retrospective on two main topics in Flusser’s work: the steps of abstraction and the black boxes (or imaging devices). On that account, we suggest that the improvement of critical visual thinking embraces not only the debate on contemporary art, but also the dialogue with other philosophers who, along with Flusser, reflected on the epistemology of the ima-gination.