Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism is a much-needed current toward reiterating a Flusserian significance in the contemporary philosophical discourses. definitely a keystone for a scholar who desires to deepen the arc of disciplined and non-disciplined research. * Phenomenological Reviews * An extraordinary collection of scholars is here assembled to provide the Jonny-come-lately Anglophone world with a critical resource for our heterochronic times. After the pandemic, what better preparation for the coming storm than this exceptionally lively and brilliantly curated collection of essays and interventions on the event of Flusseran event whose retrofuturist moment is upon us. Situated at the sweet spot between cybernetics and existentialism, media theory and weird thought, Flussers migratory work left a thousand tendrils of unfulfilled potential behind; here that mass of theoretic implication begins to twitch, to move, to speak Its alive! * Julian Murphet, Jury Chair of English Language and Literature, University of Adelaide, Australia * Vilém Flussers work becomes more urgent with every new decade we enter in the twenty-first century. This brilliantly constructed volume takes the eclecticism of his oeuvre seriously, and by engaging an outstanding group of his most significant interlocutors as well as emerging voices at the nexus of modernism, media studies, and theory after humanism, Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism appears at the moment in which Flussers prescience is making itself known across disciplines. This is an essential volume for anyone reading Flusser today, which should really be everyone. * Kate Marshall, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, USA * An essential guide for both the novice and the expert, this wide-ranging collection traces the uniquely cosmopolitan itinerary of Flussers life and work, introducing the major concepts while pushing his thought in new directions. As this volume shows, media theory is far too tidy a term for this gargantuan thinker, an event called Flusser that were just beginning to process. Flusser hasnt left the building; he hasnt even arrived yet. * Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University, USA *
