Does Writing Have a Future?

By: Vilem Flusser, Nancy Ann Roth (Translator), Mark Poster (Introduction by)

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In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writing—and much that cannot be—can be recorded and transmitted by other means.
Confirming Flusser’s status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser looks back to the earliest forms of writing and forward to the digitization of texts now under way. For Flusser, writing—despite its limitations when compared to digital media—underpins historical consciousness, the concept of progress, and the nature of critical inquiry. While the text as a cultural form may ultimately become superfluous, he argues, the art of writing will not so much disappear but rather evolve into new kinds of thought and expression.

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"Vilem Flusser's flashes of brilliant insight, his intuitions about the psychology of gadgets and convergences, his deeply well-read and philosophically grounded investigations of wide-ranging consequences of a new literacy, are widely admired and deserve an Anglophone audience. Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future? are of the first rank in the canon of new media studies and digital culture." --Peter Krapp, author of Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Handicrafts, Decorative Arts & Crafts Calligraphy & Hand-Lettering Society & Culture Media Studies Computing & I.T.Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Philosophy Social & Political Philosophy

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An Introduction to Vilém Flusser's Into the Universe of Technical Images and Does Writing Have a Future?	p. ix
Does Writing Have a Future?
Introduction	p. 3
Superscript	p. 5
Inscriptions	p. 11
Notation	p. 17
Letters of the Alphabet	p. 23
Texts	p. 37
Print	p. 47
Instructions	p. 55
Spoken Languages	p. 63
Poetry	p. 71
Ways of Reading	p. 79
Deciphering	p. 87
Books	p. 95
Letters	p. 103
Newspapers	p. 111
Stationeries	p. 119
Desks	p. 125
Scripts	p. 133
The Digital	p. 141
Recoding	p. 149
Subscript	p. 157
Afterword to the Second Edition	p. 163
Translator's Afterword and Acknowledgments	p. 165
Translator's Notes	p. 169
Index	p. 171
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