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 All translations of the German word Unding erase its ambiguity. It is Flusser who first turned the Unding into a “non-thing” (Nichtding). Up to then it had been “an absurdity,” something that “went against common sense.” And it was also in this sense of the word that Flusser asked whether death might, perhaps, be an Unding as well. All translations of the German word Unding erase its ambiguity. It is Flusser who first turned the Unding into a “non-thing” (Nichtding). Up to then it had been “an absurdity,” something that “went against common sense.” And it was also in this sense of the word that Flusser asked whether death might, perhaps, be an Unding as well.
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 +//Original article by Margit Rosen//
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