{"product_id":"does-writing-have-a-future-paperback-softback-9780816670239","title":"Does Writing Have a Future? (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816670239","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDoes Writing Have a Future?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVilém Flusser (Author), Nancy Ann Roth (Translated by), Mark Poster (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816670239\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 February 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.25 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"VilÉm 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.\u003ci\u003e Into the Universe of Technical Images \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDoes Writing Have a Future?\u003c\/i\u003e are of the first rank in the canon of new media studies and digital culture.\" -Peter Krapp, author of \u003ci\u003eDÉjÀ Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps a turn to Flusser will change the disregard for media that so characterizes the cultural theory of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. For Flusser, however flamboyant and polemical his writing at times is, thought deeply about the emergence of electronic media and its implications for not only Western but truly global culture.\" -Mark Poster, from the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDoes Writing Have a Future?\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eConfirming 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAn Introduction to Vilém Flusser's \u003ci\u003eInto the Universe of Technical Images\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoes Writing Have a Future?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Mark Poster\u003cbr\u003e Does Writing Have a Future?\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Superscript\u003cbr\u003e Inscriptions\u003cbr\u003e Notation\u003cbr\u003e Letters of the Alphabet\u003cbr\u003e Texts\u003cbr\u003e Print\u003cbr\u003e Instructions\u003cbr\u003e Spoken Languages\u003cbr\u003e Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Ways of Reading\u003cbr\u003e Deciphering\u003cbr\u003e Books\u003cbr\u003e Letters\u003cbr\u003e Newspapers\u003cbr\u003e Stationeries\u003cbr\u003e Desks\u003cbr\u003e Scripts\u003cbr\u003e The Digital\u003cbr\u003e Recoding\u003cbr\u003e Subscript\u003cbr\u003e Afterword to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Afterword and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Nancy Roth\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520747532568,"sku":"9780816670239","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/does-writing-have-a-future-paperback-softback-9780816670239","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}