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| Present: The present is the moment that is happening right now. It is the only moment that is real, and it is the only moment that we can experience directly. See also Events, Actions, Experience, Sensory impressions, Perception, Time, Past, Future, Timelessness._____________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 Present - Dictionary of Arguments
I 223 ff Present/Flusser: In the present situation, the alphabet and similar codes play a much smaller role in the programming of humanity. >Code/Flusser. It is schizophrenic that we behave very differently in the cinema than in the laboratory. If we were behind it, then we would be "behind" everything that the structures pretend to mean. It would hardly be difficult to make television dialogical, but it is not wanted because we would have to throw our political categories overboard. Specialists are incapable of translating their codes in a generally understandable way. As long as technoimagination does not really penetrate our consciousness, i.e. as long as we have not learned to create images of concepts, it is pointless to speak of an availability of communication structures. >Images/Flusser, >Explanations, >Communication, >Media, >Communication Media, >Television, >Social Media, >Photography/Flusser._____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-24