Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilem Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions--from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning--in terms of partic[...]

How far apart are humans from animals--even the "vampire squid from hell"? Playing the scientist/philosopher/provocateur, Vilem Flusser uses this question as a springboard to dive into a literal and a philosophical ocean. "The abyss that separates us" from the vampire squid (or vampire octopus, perh[...]

This text presents in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher, Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In a series of essays, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationship between art and science, theology and technology.[...]

In "On Doubt," Vilem Flusser refines Martin Heidegger's famous declaration that "language is the dwelling of Being." For Flusser, "the word is the dwelling of being," because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word.
"On Doubt" is a treatise on the human intellect, its relation to langua[...]