# people.VilemFlusser > ![[Caminos_Ferrari_1982.png]] >> “Caminos” by Léon Ferrari_1982.png >> https://aphelis.net/lines-tim-ingold-vilem-flusser/ ## Towards a Philosophy of Photography >“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.” > “Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything is becoming absurd. So where is there room for human freedom?” > “Communication is an artificial, intentional, dialogic, collective act of freedom, aiming at creating codes that help us forget our inevitable death and the fundamental senselessness of our absorb existence.” > “Traditional images signify phenomena whereas technical (produced by an apparatus) images signify concepts.” ## Essays ### [Line and Surface](https://pile.sdbs.cz/item/101) - https://kangyy1.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/vilem-flusser-writings-line-and-surface/ - https://thathasbeen.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/line-and-surface/ ### [Codified World](https://pile.sdbs.cz/item/100) - https://thathasbeen.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/the-codified-world/ # Related - [[fulldocs.twitter.codex.relations]] - [[las]] - [[las.quotes]] -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- # Unsorted ## online - http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/demo-flusser.html !!! - https://aaaaarg.fail/ref/b394ff0944244fa201d8fe8621f1a0a2#0.01 ---- https://adelheidmers.org/aweb/home.htm https://aphelis.net/lines-tim-ingold-vilem-flusser/ ## quotes ### [The City as Wave-Trough in the Image Flood](https://pile.sdbs.cz/item/105 ) The 324 Vile ´m Flusser / The City as Wave-Trough in the Image-Flood 4. Kabely is a bit of word play here because it can mean both “wire(s)” and “cable” in the sense of “cable TV.” I have chosen “cable” here to give the sense of multiple lines of transmission that bring the public sphere into the private. public space pushes into the private thanks to cable 4 (as in the case of television). Private space pushes into public thanks to machines (like cars). ---- Everything is divisible, and there can be no individual. Not only can atoms be split into particles but so can all mental objects; actions become “aktomes,” decisions become “dezidemes,” perceptions become stimulations, representations become pixels. --- the cathedral are seen as surface phenomena, as congealed, materialized masks, as a kind of archaeological kitchen trash. #blacksun