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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, | ||
- | The human being is awed, a species fraught | + | In fact, the cyborg as well as current practices of body hacking might have appealed to Flusser |
- | with deficiencies and shortcomings. Vilém | + | |
- | Flusser’s concept | + | //Original article by [[: |
- | corresponding theory | + | |
- | with analyses | + | //// |
- | 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”; it offers | + | |
- | move out of this defective natural state and into | + | |
- | freedom. Freedom, a complex Flusserian category | + | |
- | that incorporates responsibility, | + | |
- | not only to the imagination | + | |
- | 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). | ||
- | //Original article by Anke Finger// |
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