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Alienation: The concept of alienation was first developed by G.W.F. Hegel, who argued that alienation is a product of modern society. Hegel believed that the division of labor and the rise of capitalism had led to a situation in which individuals were no longer in control of their own lives. - Alienation in art refers to the technique of changing familiar elements in order to create new perspectives.
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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 Alienation - Dictionary of Arguments

I 107
Alienating/Estrangement/Distancing/Flusser:
Alienation 1: the human being is expelled from the "world", tries to bridge the abyss with pictures (Magic Consciousness).
>Pictures/Flusser
, >Techno-image/Flusser.
Alienation 2: The mediation performance of the image is disturbed, the human leaves the world of images and tries to bridge the abyss with texts.
>Texts/Flusser, >World/Thinking.
I 109
New point of view: historical awareness. Over time, the texts become opaque, unimaginable (>Alienation 3). Our texts no longer mediate, because behind them we no longer see images, but ourselves as creators.
>Mediation, >Conceivability.
I 110
E.g. there is no image of nature behind classical physics, but Newton, behind Hegel's philosophy is not an image of the human, but Hegel, behind the Karamazov brothers not an image of the human soul, but Dostoyevsky.
We are alienated from the world of texts because we see them as a world created by us.
Cf. >Constructivism.
I 133
Alienation 3/Flusser: the madness of living within an impenetrable wall of books is nothing less terrible than the madness from which the books wanted to free us.
>Literature.

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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


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