What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images
Vilém Flusser, "What If?: Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images"
English | ISBN: 1517913667 | 2022 | 120 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1517913667 | 2022 | 120 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
“Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail.” —Vilém Flusser
Two years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two “scenarios for the future” to be produced as computer-generated media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the universe.
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