Publication details
Reflexe a revoluce ornamentu postindustriální doby
| Title in English | Reflection and Revolution of The Ornament of The Postindustrial Period |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Vilém Flusser is probably the first media theorist who introduced the definition of information technology (apparatus) as a programmed device involved in the network of other programs. The study focuses on more in-depth exploration of its concept of an apparatus in relation to the current debate within Software studies. In connection with Flusser's description of the transformation of the apparatus of the industrial age into the apparatus of the postindustrial age, there is proposed a change of the metaphor of the industrial apparatus as an ornament (Z. Kracauer) into the postindustrial apparatus as a fractal. The study is complemented by a case study on the robot performance The Tiller Girls (2009) that is based on the superposition of the ornaments of industrial and postindustrial machinery. This epilogue relates to the previous text as its illustration. At the same time, it is a step in the way Flusser shows when calling for the new discipline of The General Theory of Gestures. It is an interpretation of movements with an effort to find out signs of revolutionary gestures of reflection in postindustrial apparatus. |
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