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What If?

Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
120 Seiten
Englisch
University of Minnesota Presserschienen am03.05.2022
An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter   Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail. -Vilém Flusser Two years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two scenarios for the future to be produced as computer-generated media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the universe. What If? is not just an impossible journey to which Flusser invites us in the first scenario; it functions also as a distorting mirror held up to humanity. Flusser´s disarming scenarios of an Anthropocene fraught with nightmares offer new visions that range from the scientific to the fantastic to the playful and whimsical. Each essay reflects our present sense of understanding the world, considering the exploitation of nature and the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and blind reliance on the promises of scientific knowledge and invention. What If? offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, with Flusser´s concept of design as crafty or slippery, and with art and the immense creative potential of failure versus reasonable, good computing or calculability. As such, the book is both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.mehr
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KlappentextAn imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter   Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail. -Vilém Flusser Two years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two scenarios for the future to be produced as computer-generated media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the universe. What If? is not just an impossible journey to which Flusser invites us in the first scenario; it functions also as a distorting mirror held up to humanity. Flusser´s disarming scenarios of an Anthropocene fraught with nightmares offer new visions that range from the scientific to the fantastic to the playful and whimsical. Each essay reflects our present sense of understanding the world, considering the exploitation of nature and the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and blind reliance on the promises of scientific knowledge and invention. What If? offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, with Flusser´s concept of design as crafty or slippery, and with art and the immense creative potential of failure versus reasonable, good computing or calculability. As such, the book is both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5179-1366-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum03.05.2022
Seiten120 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 137 mm, Höhe 213 mm, Dicke 9 mm
Gewicht178 g
Artikel-Nr.58649737

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: What If? Into the Slipstream of Flusser´s Field of Possibilities Anke FingerFirst Scenario: What If . . .Part I. Scenes from Family LifeSecond Scenario: GrandmotherThird Scenario: GrandfatherFourth Scenario: Great UncleFifth Scenario: BrothersSixth Scenario: SonSeventh Scenario: GrandchildrenEighth Scenario: Great-GrandchildrenPart II. Scenes from Economic LifeNinth Scenario: Economic MiracleTenth Scenario: Foreign AidEleventh Scenario: Mechanical EngineeringTwelfth Scenario: AgricultureThirteenth Scenario: Chemical IndustryFourteenth Scenario: Animal HusbandryPart III. Scenes from PoliticsFifteenth Scenario: WarSixteenth Scenario: Aural ObedienceSeventeenth Scenario: Perpetual PeaceEighteenth Scenario: RevolutionNineteenth Scenario: Parliamentary DemocracyTwentieth Scenario: Aryan ImperialismTwenty-First Scenario: Black Is BeautifulPart IV. ShowdownTwenty-Second Scenario: A BreatherAfterwordKenneth GoldsmithAcknowledgmentsNotesmehr

Autor

Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) was born in Prague; emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper column; and later moved to France. Minnesota has published a dozen of Flusser's works in translation, among them Into the Universe of Technical Images, Does Writing Have a Future?, Gestures, and VampyroteuthisInfernalis.

Anke Finger is professor of German studies and media studies at the University of Connecticut, where she also inaugurated the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative at the Humanities Institute. She is cofounder of the open access journal Flusser Studies and coauthor of Vilem Flusser: An Introduction (Minnesota, 2011).   

Kenneth Kronenberg has been a translator for nearly thirty years, specializing in German intellectual and cultural history and diaries and letters. His recent translations include Jorun Poettering's Trade, Nation, and Religion and Fritz Trümpi's Political Orchestras.

Kenneth Goldsmith is an American avant-garde poet and critic, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and founder of the UbuWeb online archive of experimental literary and visual art.