The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the last seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski's " . . . After the Media]" discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. [...]

Diese Archäologie der Medien biegt den Zeitpfeil aus dem Jetzt heraus um und richtet ihn durch zurückliegende Ereignisse und Personen hindurch. In einer großzügigen Suchbewegung spürt sie Ideen, Entwürfen und Praktiken nach, die von vergessenen, verdrängten oder bisher unbekannten Abenteuern [...]

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[...]