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History: History is the study of the past, especially the people, events, and trends that have shaped our world. This is about the part of the past that was determined and experienced by consciousness. See also Historiography, Culture._____________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 History - Dictionary of Arguments
I 153 History/Flusser: When it is said that at present every historical engagement in the function of the apparatus operator complex is taking place in order to become a programme and that every scientific or artistic activity has the ultimate goal of being encoded in techno-images (>Images/Flusser), then history is coming to an end. Cf. >Computer programming, >Computers, >Computation, >Computer model, >Software, >Code/Flusser, >Terminology/Flusser, >Techno-images/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 |