Post-History av Vilem Flusser

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<DIV><P><BR>Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém Flusser asks in <I>Post-History</I>. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time in Brazil in 1983. This first English translation of <I>Post-History</I> brings to an anglophone readership Flusser’s first critique of <I>apparatus</I> as the aesthetic, ethical, and epistemological model of present times. </P><BR><P>In his main argument, Flusser suggests that our times may be characterized by the term “program,” much in the same way that the seventeenth century is loosely characterized by the term “nature,” the eighteenth by “reason,” and the nineteenth by “progress.” In suggesting this shift in worldview, he then poses a provocative question: If I function within a predictable programmed reality