01857nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801040007608200140018010000200019424500610021426000530027530000260032836500090035452009810036365000210134465000200136565000250138570000200141094200090143099900170143995201590145620260308200416.0260308b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780816670215  a: Technical Bureaub: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic: TB3813d: 27/02/2026  a770.1 FLU  aFlusser, Vilem.  aInto the Universe of Technical Images.c/ Vilem Flusser.  a, Londonb: Universe of Minnesota Pressc, 2011.  axxvii, 184p.c: 22cm.  b1462  aPoised 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.  aTechnical Images  aUniversal Image  aHistory or a society  aVilem Flussser.  cBOOK  c67144d67144  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-03-08eTechnical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.g1462.00l1o770.1 FLUp31395r2026-04-09 11:08:32s2026-03-10w2026-03-08yBOOK