Communication as a black box. Vilém Flusser’s proposals and insufficiencies
Vilém Flusser did revolutionize the research on communication when he suggested that images nowadays do not have any rapport to the antique images. They are rather technical images, they signify concepts, they conduct to mathematical formula and to calculation. They did exclude the power of speech a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Em Questão (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/136 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/136 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Teoria da comunicação. Imagens técnicas. História da comunicação. Democratização da comunicação. Theories of communication. Technical images. History of communication. Democratization of communication. Teoría de la comunicación. Imágenes técnicas. Historia de la comunicación. Democratización de la comunicación. |
| Sumario: | Vilém Flusser did revolutionize the research on communication when he suggested that images nowadays do not have any rapport to the antique images. They are rather technical images, they signify concepts, they conduct to mathematical formula and to calculation. They did exclude the power of speech and at this moment we are more and more programmed by them. Therefore, our strategy against this new form of domination has to be centered in the field of images and our chance of democracy is in the hands of the “imaginators”. However, Flusser does not succeed to eliminate the ambiguity of his proposal: he bets on the intentionality in a world in which – according to him – the human action is nothing more than a mathematical function of two variables and humans will disappear in a sea of waves and casual particles. In networks, dialog, according to Flusser’s thesis, possesses real political powers while the possibility of democratization tends to the ingenuity of taking numerous access as participation, practice of critic and qualitative proposals. |
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