{"product_id":"the-surprising-phenomenon-of-human-communication-paperback","title":"The Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVilem Flusser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRodrigo Maltez Novaes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChagrin\u003c\/b\u003e (Designed by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally written in both English and French, \u003cem\u003eThe Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of twelve essays that Vil m Flusser delivered as lectures in Aix-en-Provence, France, on several subjects ranging from communication media, memory, symbols, meaning, models, art, cybernetics, the Bible, and Brigitte Bardot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough written in 1975, this early phenomenological study of changing aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological models, and of the current fundamental revolution in the structure of human communication, is a visionary and provocative polemic that can help us understand, or at least, gain a better view of what is happening in the world around us today: big data, centralised media power, mass media conglomerates, political aesthetics etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnpublished for almost forty years, \u003cem\u003eThe Surprising Phenomenon of Human Communication\u003c\/em\u003e, now published for the first time, edited from Vil m Flusser's original English typescript, is not only an important work from the author's mid career, just before the development of his seminal theories on technical images and technical imagination, but it also forms a continuous link with his other titles of the same period: \u003cem\u003eNatural: Mind, Gestures, Mutation in Human Relations, Post-History, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTowards a Philosophy of Photography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52695142400307,"sku":"9780993327254","price":31.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZzcrdjZEc1FQTkhWRk5sclZlTkU5QT09.webp?v=1763081944","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-surprising-phenomenon-of-human-communication-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}