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| Texts: A text is a written or printed piece of language-based communication, ranging from individual words to longer passages or documents, conveying information, ideas, or stories. See also Language, Writing, Information, Communication, Meaning, Words, Word meaning, Sentence meanging, Literature, Culture, Cultural transmission._____________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 Texts - Dictionary of Arguments
I 105 Texts/Flusser: Thesis: Almost everyone can "write". Texts are getting "cheaper" all the time and less valuable. The world of texts is no longer characteristic of our codified world. Although it is much denser than ever. The level of consciousness that these codes correspond to has not yet been reached. That is why they are so extraordinarily dangerous: they program us without being seen through and threaten us as opaque walls. I 124ff Texts/Flusser: The Qualitative Second Jump (Fig. I 107) "Alienation 2". The text tells "everything in an order". Fig.: The stick figures emerge out of the frame, arranged one after the other: sun, male, male, dog. All separate. The symbols of the descriptive text have nothing in common with the symbols of the described text. The orthographic rules are much more complicated. >Symbols, >Description levels. I 125 The jump out of the picture is a strange gesture: the jump is not performed with the legs, but with the hands, like how one ruffles up a sweater. Not the theoretically infinite number of lines of the surface, but the significant lines of the elements. I 127 At first glance, it is evident that linear codes can transmit far less information than two-dimensional codes of the surface. Many pages of text are necessary to describe a very simple picture. The importance of the "sublime" is lost. >Sublime, >Gärdenfors. I 128 Imagination/Descartes/Flusser: Descartes did not have less, but more imagination than a drawer, so he had to translate the two-dimensional geometry into equations. >Equations. Simply put: all texts mean pictures and without pictures there are no texts. I 133 Books/Flusser: Wittgenstein shows that they are either tautological, meaningless, or contradictory. I 134 ... and that the apparent meaning of texts is based on "grammatical errors", i. e. on incorrect manipulation of the codes. >Code/Flusser. I 158 f Texts/Picture/Flusser: Relationship between picture and text: Diachronic: Texts in function of pictures: e.g. Romanesque churches: conceptual thinking put at the service of magic. >Magical thinking. If, on the other hand, images are used in function of texts (e.g. in fibulas), then magical thinking has been put into the service of historicization (of literacy). In the cloister one should learn to imagine something in reference to the biblical texts, in the fibula to describe pictures in terms. I 161 Synchronic: viewed synchronously, the question is posed differently: images have been currently displaced from the center of the codified world. Picture books are either too expensive or too cheap to play a similar role to the cloisters. In our world, a walk through a nocturnal city street is more imaginative than a walk through a picture gallery. I 164 Text/Technical Image: relation text/technical image: the belief that observation is a "meeting" of the observer with the observed has long been shaken. >Observation, >Perception._____________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 2024-04-19