A book you need to read

A key insight at the center of Vilém Flusser's work — and, by extension, at the center of this collection of his Writings — is that the images produced by human apparatuses, such as cameras and computers, are distinct from traditional two-dimensional imagery for one key reason: they arise from a critique of images rather than from a mythical attachment to them. These technical images are born out of calculation and an analytical bias that informs their underlying technology. If writing emerged as a critique of images, then technical images emerged as a critique of the analytical linearity that is essential to writing.

What are the implications of this for today's humanists?

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