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Politics: Politics is the process of making decisions in groups. It is about how people come together to allocate resources, settle disputes, and make choices about how to live together. See also Democracy, Society._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Vilém Flusser on Politics - Dictionary of Arguments
I 202 Politics/Flusser: Def Politicize/Flusser: Politicizing carries the private into public space. On television, politicians enter the private sphere and depoliticize it. >Television, >Cinema, >Society, >Media. The images transform the recipient into a consuming, passive, suffering one. In this sense, all images are "advertisement", even if announcers state that they are "indicative" (wrong information) or "art". >Advertising. I 203 The imperative character of television is in illusory decoding and not encoded in its information. I 204 The crucial thing about television is that the box is incapable of broadcasting. Television could work in the same way as telephones do (in both directions). The inability is ideological. Television could actually work on the creation of a "cosmic village" ((s) positive) instead of a "cosmic circus". So it is not the establishment of a technocratic totalitarianism, but of a "democracy" in an as yet incomprehensible sense of the word. >Totalitarianism, >Democracy._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Fl I V. Flusser Kommunikologie Mannheim 1996 |