News

This page is dedicated to new publications of and about Vilém Flusser, as well as to translations, conferences, international meetings, symposiums, critical comments and other Flusseriana of interest to scholars.

• On ‘you tube’ are now available two shorter videos on Flusser about nomadism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjiODdrJIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkYGYFSob8&feature=related

• On the 27th June 2008 the conference IN-FORM: Vilém Flusser on Design organized by Marcel René Marburger will be held at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands).
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/0_2_3_events_info/arc_08_IN-FORM.html;

• Annablume (São Paulo) has recently published Vilém Flusser: uma introdução by Gustavo Bernardo, Anke Finger and Rainer Guldin ( http://www.annablume.com.br/comercio/product_info.php?cPath=14&products_id=1008). A German version of this text is going to be published in early 2009 by Wilhelm Fink in UTB-Profile (http://www.utb.de/profile.html).

• A new choice of texts in Portuguese translation has been edited by Rafael Cardoso: Vilém Flusser, O mundo codificado: por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação. Organised by Rafael Cardoso and translated by Raquel Abi-Sâmara São Paulo: Cosac Naif, 2007; 224 pp. ISBN: 978-85-7503-593-1

From the 12th to the 14th of November 2007 the Goethe Institute in Prague (Czech Republic) hosted an international Flusser-Symposium entitled "Für eine Philosophie der neuen Zeit." http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/vfl/deindex.htm

• The _Vilém_Flusser_Archive has recently moved to the Universität der Künste Berlin (Grunewaldstrasse 2-5, 10823 Berlin). flusser@udk-berlin.de
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• From the 29th to the 31st of March 2007 the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Germany) hosted a Flusser-Kolloquium entitled "Die Medien- und Bildtheorie Vilém Flussers." It is organized by the Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche der Klassik Stiftung Weimar. http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/mitteilung.455.0.html?mitteilungid=24229&offset=20

• From the 12th to the 14th of October 2006 the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim hosted the first Symposium on Flusser and Brazil: “A terceira margem: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien. Kontexte - Migration – Übersetzung”. Please view the report at
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/inst/romanistik/fachtagung/Index.html

• A Spanish translation of Flusser’s Die alphanumerische Gesellschaft (Medienkultur, Frankfurt a. M. 1997, p. 41-60) by Breno Onetto Muñoz is available at 
http://www.humanidades.uach.cl/cv_onetto.htm

• Thomas Karlsohn from the University of Göteborg has published a dissertation on Vilém Flusser's media-theory. (Karlsohn, Thomas, Passage mellan medier. Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften, Göteborg: Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori 2005). Please view the abstract in English: Karlsohn abstract

• Vilém Flusser, Bochumer Vorlesungen 1991, ed. by Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski. In the summer of 1991 Friedrich A. Kittler invited Flusser to hold a series of lectures at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany). These lectures are now available on-line as audio-stream files. http://flusserstream.khm.de/flusserstream/show_chapters.php

• An English Translation (by Phil Gochenour) of “Die Stadt als Wellental in der Bilderflut” appeared in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Winter 2005), entitled “The City as Wave-Through in the Image-Flood.”

• After Língua e realidade (2004), A história do diabo (2005), also Bodenlos (2007) has been reissued by Annablume (São Paulo). http://www.annablume.com.br/comercio/product_info.php?products_id=874