Flusser's Conception of Posthistory and the End of Traditional Media Theory
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EVENT
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presentation
Keywords:
digitising / history / image / interpretation / online world / television / theory
Creation Date:
1997-03-17
Language:
German
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The new computers are made to process history alternatively to history which is "happening". At the moment, digital television and the Internet signalize a transitory period in which we are not able to clarify this difference. Media science deals with the new machines as image-factories with regard to history that is "happening"; at the same time, the machines produce processed histories, which are on the way to undermining and ousting our traditional (linear) conception of history. The chances of media sciences could be to make the gesture of production, image-making of linear and alphabetical writing transparent,or rather, spottable. Otherwise we run the risk of interpreting posthistory as a new doom of nature. (K.K.)
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Original Title (English):
Flusser's Conception of Posthistory and the End of Traditional Media Theory
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok, Törley-terem / Kunsthalle, Törley Hall
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