01686nam a22002297a 4500 20260308200416.0 260308b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780816670215 : Technical Bureau : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi : TB3813 : 27/02/2026 770.1 FLU Flusser, Vilem. Into the Universe of Technical Images. / Vilem Flusser. , London : Universe of Minnesota Press , 2011. xxvii, 184p. : 22cm. 1462 Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change. First published in German in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, Into the Universe of Technical Images outlines the history of communication technology as a process of increasing abstraction. Flusser charts how communication evolved from direct interaction with the world to mediation through various technologies. The invention of writing marked one significant shift; the invention of photography marked another, heralding the current age of the technical image. The automation of the processing of technical images carries both promise and threat: the promise of freeing humans to play and invent and the threat for networks of automation to proceed independently of humans. Technical Images Universal Image History or a society Vilem Flussser. BOOK 67144 67144 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-03-08 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 1462.00 1 770.1 FLU 31395 2026-04-09 11:08:32 2026-03-10 2026-03-08 BOOK