====== Die Schrift ======


Wegweisende Publikation von 1987, darunter das "erste E-Book" von [[tag:publisher:immatrix_publications|Immatrix Publications]] , organisiert und herausgegeben von [[tag:person:andreas_mueller-pohle|Andreas Müller-Pohle]] und Volker Rapsch in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Vilém Flusser.  Der Essay "Hat Schreiben Zukünftig" wurde in Buchform und vor allem auch als DOS-Floppies mit erweiterten interaktiven Funktionalitäten und Soundeffekten veröffentlicht. 

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[[tag:person:andreas_mueller-pohle|Andreas Müller-Pohle]] recounts:
"Vilém Flusser's essay "die Schrift" is not only about writing, it calls writing itself into question through writing. Originally we had discussed a traditional printed book for publication, the idea for an electronic edition in my exchanges with Volker Rapsch, with whom I founded [[immatrix_publications|Immatrix Publications]] in 1986.  Flusser liked this new idea and contributed a new "postscript" for the electronic edition.  In the postscript (literally "after writing") Flusser proposes the reader can either encounter the electronic publication as a "no-longer-book" (nichtmehrbuch) or as a "also-still-book" (nochimmerbuch) - to indicate that the reader could engage with the publication in dialogue instead of simply reading it off the screen.
Therein lay the whole explosiveness of this project: it allowed the reader not only apprehend text as the result of a writing process, but it permitted text to become a process itself. This essay pointed towards a new culture of writing, and fortunately there was a technology - primitive from today's point of view - with which the experiment could be attempted concretely." (from "Ein Gespräch zwischen Andreas Müller-Pohle (European Photography, Immatrix Publications) und Daniel Irrgang (Vilém Flusser Archiv) im August 2015.) (trans. B. Gottlieb)