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04/06/2024

Dear Flusserian Community, do not miss an upcoming colloquium next week organized by Gabriel Philipson:

"Colloquium Flusser - Literary Theory - Midialities"

June 13th & 14th, 9:00-18:00, PUC-SP Brasil
(hybrid: 14:00-23:00, Berlin, https://www.youtube.com/)

Link to details: https://inscricaoposlclpucsp.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/coloquio-flusser-teoria-literaria-e-midialidades/

Link for inscription:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVFp-FpYIYrXpfWY1Pfvdiy9t1Q02aIcobB_iJZAdnqGSglw/viewform

The "Colloquium Flusser - Literary Theory - Midialities", organized by PUC-SP together with UERJ, aims to broadly discuss the intersections between literary theory and media theory based on the work of Vilém Flusser, to reflect on his thought in the context of the literary theory debates of his time and contemporaneous to us, especially those developed in Brazil. The intention is to provide a transdisciplinary environment in which both international scholars and those from different Brazilian universities can share the potential of Flusser's thought.

O “Colóquio Flusser – Teoria literária – Midialidades”, organizado pela PUC-SP em parceria com a UERJ, quer discutir de maneira ampla as intersecções entre teoria literária e teoria das mídia…

16/05/2024

Der Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte veranstaltet in Kooperation mit der Fachgruppe Kommunikationsgeschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft DGPuK und [na]KOGE ein Medienhistorisches Forum für Forschungsnachwuchs und Absolvent*innen am 8./9. November 2024 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

15/05/2024

On Sunday, May 12th, we celebrated Flusser's 104th birthday at A Flusserian Picnic. Thanks everyone for joining and sharing your Flusserian concepts.

📸 by Roberta Dabdab

14/05/2024

The Flusser scholar Patricia Moran will give a great lecture about Brazilian media art during the pandemic at the Medientheater in Berlin today at 7pm.
A highly recommended event for every Flusserian!

AUDIOVISUAL UNREST is a website that documents a variety of developments in Brazilian media art during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project is going to be presented by its director Patrícia Moran together with Katia Guedes, one of the contributing artists, and media art scholar and curator Cornelia L...

13/05/2024

Thanks everyone for joining our Book Launch event this evening :)

20/03/2024

SAVE THE DATE!
On 13th May, one day after Flusser’s birthday, at 6:30pm, Monika Vrečar and Jonah Corne are launching their book “Yiddish Cinema. The Drama of Troubled Communication” at UDK Medienhaus.

In this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little-known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed its "golden age" in the mid- to late 1930s. Yiddish cinema, they argue, exhibits a distinctive fascination with media forms, technologies, and institutions, and with relationality writ large. What stands behind this communication obsession, as it might be understood, is the films' engagement both with Judaic ideals and with a series of Jewish sociohistorical predicaments of troubled communication (immigration, displacement, the breakdown of tradition, and so on) that the films seek to reflect. Accordingly, the authors create a resonant conversation between Yiddish cinema, populated by an endless procession of disconnected characters ardently striving to rejoin the world of communication, and the brilliant yet underappreciated ideas of pioneering Czech-Jewish media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), who escaped N**i persecution and built the first part of his intellectual career in Brazil. Indeed, the authors claim that the popular art of Yiddish cinema articulates in dramatic terms a version of the central Flusserian hypothesis that "the structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality" and, by doing so, embodies a remarkable Jewish media theory "from below." Films discussed include The Wandering Jew (1933), The Dybbuk (1937), Where is My Child? (1937), A Little Letter to Mother (1938), Kol Nidre (1939), Motel the Operator (1939), Tevye (1939), The Living Orphan (1939), and Long Is the Road (1948).

Jonah Corne is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba.
Monika Vrečar is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska, Slovenia.

05/02/2024

Thanks everyone for joining our performance on last Friday.

02/02/2024

Thanks everyone for joining our book presentation in the morning.
Don’t forget to come to our performance Geste, Gestaltung, und Gestimmtheit - physical metaphysics for artists tonight! We start at 7pm.

31/01/2024

The books have arrived. We’re ready for the Book Launch “We Can No Longer Philosophize in Words as We Had Before, We Must try it With Images”.
See you at the archive on Friday (Feb 2) at 10am.