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+ | The human being is awed, a species fraught with deficiencies and shortcomings. Vilém Flusser’s concept of anthropology feeds on a corresponding theory of abstraction, | ||
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+ | In fact, the cyborg as well as current practices of body hacking might have appealed to Flusser for he advocated “manipulation of the subjected body” since the “goal of all body projection is to design the body such that you can make use of it” (Vom Subjekt zum Projekt, 1994, p. 98; translated from the German). Such reasoning evokes discourses of trans- or posthumanism today, and demands more debate on Flusser’s own ideas about sensory perception and his philosophy of the body. Flusser’s anthropological work, however, began decades earlier with his reflections on Brazilian cultures and a new humanity in his work Brasilien oder die Suche nach dem neuen Menschen [Brazil or the Search for a New Man] (1994). | ||
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- | The human being is awed, a species fraught | ||
- | with deficiencies and shortcomings. Vilém | ||
- | Flusser’s concept of anthropology feeds on a | ||
- | corresponding theory of abstraction, | ||
- | with analyses of cultural techniques, technologies, | ||
- | and a progression of evolutionary steps, | ||
- | whereby humans develop new “abstract universes” | ||
- | in order to overcome their own, biologically | ||
- | determined, doom. Flusser calls this | ||
- | “neg-anthropology”; | ||
- | move out of this defective natural state and into | ||
- | freedom. Freedom, a complex Flusserian category | ||
- | that incorporates responsibility, | ||
- | not only to the imagination (projection) of abstract, | ||
- | zero-dimensional technical images and | ||
- | of interpersonal connectivity; | ||
- | the organic limitations of the body that we are to | ||
- | overcome – if we want to. \\ | ||
- | In fact, the cyborg as well as current practices | ||
- | of body hacking might have appealed to Flusser | ||
- | for he advocated “manipulation of the subjected | ||
- | body” since the “goal of all body projection is to | ||
- | design the body such that you can make use of | ||
- | it” (Vom Subjekt zum Projekt, 1994, p. 98; translated | ||
- | from the German). Such reasoning evokes | ||
- | discourses of trans- or posthumanism today, and | ||
- | demands more debate on Flusser’s own ideas | ||
- | about sensory perception and his philosophy of | ||
- | the body. Flusser’s anthropological work, however, | ||
- | began decades earlier with his reflections | ||
- | on Brazilian cultures and a new humanity in his | ||
- | work Brasilien oder die Suche nach dem neuen | ||
- | Menschen [Brazil or the Search for a New Man] | ||
- | (1994). |
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