The Society of the Screen
Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience
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- Paperback
406 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser’s early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.
Predicting the importance of technology and images for the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilem Flusser warned, “the basic structure of our thinking is about to experience a mutation.” The bewitching images and screens that surround us could lead toward a centrally programmed, totalitarian society—or to an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051224 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262051222 |
| Author: | Martha Schwendener |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 406 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 160mm x 239mm |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“Smartly illustrated and beautifully written, Martha Schwendener’s timely book provides a deep dive into the work of a thinker about images and visual information who has never seemed more relevant than right now.”
—Geoffrey Batchen, author of Negative/Positive: A History of Photography
“A highly innovative book that overcomes the still widely held reductive view of Vilém Flusser as a media theorist by bringing his lifelong interest in art to the forefront.”
—Rainer Guldin, Editor-in-Chief, Flusser Studies
REVIEWS
“Throughout her book, Schwendener weaves together imagery, critique, and history…Society of the Screen is chockablock with many such fascinating images, all by artists who are rarely the usual suspects.”
—The Village Voice
Martha Schwendener
Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at New York University and a researcher in residence at the Vilem Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilem Fusser’s Essays // Artforum, and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, and October, among other publications.
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