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On the State of Things: A Brief Philosophy of Design

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On the State of Things: A Brief Philosophy of Design
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Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), a younger contemporary of Walter Benjamin and one of the pioneers of media studies, created an unusual intellectual genre. In the form of brief and elegant philosophical essays, he reveals the semantic structures of our everyday world, its most important domains, and the transformations occurring within them. Flusser's analysis unfolds as a phenomenology of the mundane objects and mechanisms that surround us, design, and urban planning. At the same time, confronting the advent of a new digital age, he discovers how pure digital form increasingly threatens to make the materiality of our world a thing of the past. Flusser's paradoxical thinking combines his experience of the political catastrophes of the 20th century, an insightful historical perspective on the past, and an understanding of the risks the new civilization poses to the future of human freedom.
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