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** ''Die Geschichte des Teufels'', ed. Andreas Müller-Pohle, Göttingen: European Photography, 1993; 2nd ed., 1996, 200 pp; 3rd ed., 2006. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
 
** ''Die Geschichte des Teufels'', ed. Andreas Müller-Pohle, Göttingen: European Photography, 1993; 2nd ed., 1996, 200 pp; 3rd ed., 2006. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
 
** ''Příběh ďábla'', trans. Jiří Fiala, Galerie Gema, 1997, 185 pp. [http://uloz.to/xnqEfNG/v-flusser-pribeh-dabla-rar] {{cz}}
 
** ''Příběh ďábla'', trans. Jiří Fiala, Galerie Gema, 1997, 185 pp. [http://uloz.to/xnqEfNG/v-flusser-pribeh-dabla-rar] {{cz}}
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/600ff14921779464d3191c938712321b#0.01 The History of the Devil]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 220 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/the-history-of-the-devil] {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/565dcfad9ff37c05d8fd51ab The History of the Devil]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 220 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/the-history-of-the-devil] {{en}}
  
 
* ''Da religiosidade: a literatura e o senso de realidade'', São Paulo: Conselho estadual de cultura, 1967, 147 pp; São Paulo: Escrituras, 2002. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''Da religiosidade: a literatura e o senso de realidade'', São Paulo: Conselho estadual de cultura, 1967, 147 pp; São Paulo: Escrituras, 2002. {{br-pt}}
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* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/8531964871f47567370223b63a9cc239 Natural:mente: vários acessos ao significado da natureza]'', São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1979, 148 pp; 2011, 164 pp. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/8531964871f47567370223b63a9cc239 Natural:mente: vários acessos ao significado da natureza]'', São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1979, 148 pp; 2011, 164 pp. {{br-pt}}
 
** ''Vogelflüge: Essays zu Natur und Kultur'', ed. Michael Krueger, Munich: Carl Hanser, 2000, 136 pp. {{de}}
 
** ''Vogelflüge: Essays zu Natur und Kultur'', ed. Michael Krueger, Munich: Carl Hanser, 2000, 136 pp. {{de}}
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/69f575ae472c9cf0da32ceef13edad3b#0.01 Natural:Mind]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 150 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/naturalmind] {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/565dcde19ff37c05dbfd529f Natural:Mind]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 150 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/naturalmind] {{en}}
  
 
* ''Pós-história: vinte istantâneos e um modo de usar'', São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1983, 168 pp. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''Pós-história: vinte istantâneos e um modo de usar'', São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1983, 168 pp. {{br-pt}}
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/14fe0780a296cf190d2c2ec30005c938#0.01 Post-History]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 167 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/post-history] {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/532f1435334fe0600a50061a Post-History]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 167 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/post-history] {{en}}
  
 
* {{a|Flusser1983}} ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=77 Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie]'', Göttingen: European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; new ed., rev., 1989, 77 pp; upd.ed., 1997, 77 pp. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
 
* {{a|Flusser1983}} ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=77 Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie]'', Göttingen: European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; new ed., rev., 1989, 77 pp; upd.ed., 1997, 77 pp. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
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** ''[[Media:Flusser_Vilem_Za_filosofiyu_fotografii.pdf|Za filosofiyu fotografii]]'' [За философию фотографии], trans. G. Khaydarova, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 2008, 146 pp. {{ru}}
 
** ''[[Media:Flusser_Vilem_Za_filosofiyu_fotografii.pdf|Za filosofiyu fotografii]]'' [За философию фотографии], trans. G. Khaydarova, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 2008, 146 pp. {{ru}}
 
** ''K filozofiji fotografije'', trans. Anja Naglič, ed. Jan Babnik, Ljubljana: ZSKZ, 2010, 90 pp. {{sl}}
 
** ''K filozofiji fotografije'', trans. Anja Naglič, ed. Jan Babnik, Ljubljana: ZSKZ, 2010, 90 pp. {{sl}}
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** ''Filosofia da Caixa Preta'', eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2018, 144 pp. [https://www.erealizacoes.com.br/produto/filosofia-da-caixa-preta] {{br-pt}}
  
 
* {{a|Flusser1985}} ''[http://proxy.ge.tt/1/files/4fN5X7d2/0/blob?pdf Ins Universum der technischen Bilder]'', Göttingen: European Photography, 1985, 143 pp; upd.ed., 1992, 186 pp. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
 
* {{a|Flusser1985}} ''[http://proxy.ge.tt/1/files/4fN5X7d2/0/blob?pdf Ins Universum der technischen Bilder]'', Göttingen: European Photography, 1985, 143 pp; upd.ed., 1992, 186 pp. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8632 A dúvida]'' [1966], ed. Dilmo Milheiros, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999; São Paulo: Annablume, 2011, 122 pp, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=499b986ea7c4725517e7f02d7c85373c PDF]. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=8632 A dúvida]'' [1966], ed. Dilmo Milheiros, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999; São Paulo: Annablume, 2011, 122 pp, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=499b986ea7c4725517e7f02d7c85373c PDF]. {{br-pt}}
** ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/ref/d55cd40d9ad41e2794ac2c1fd81c5308#0.01 On Doubt]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 100 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/on-doubt] {{en}}
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/565dce559ff37c05dbfd52a1 On Doubt]'', trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 100 pp. [http://www.univocalpublishing.com/flusser-archive-series/flusser-archive-series/on-doubt] {{en}}
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** ''Da Dúvida'', eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2018, 200 pp. [https://www.erealizacoes.com.br/produto/da-duvida] {{br-pt}}
  
 
* ''Briefe an Alex Bloch'', eds. Edith Flusser and Klaus Sander, Göttingen: European Photography, 2000. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
 
* ''Briefe an Alex Bloch'', eds. Edith Flusser and Klaus Sander, Göttingen: European Photography, 2000. [http://equivalence.com/labor/lab_vf_edi.shtml] {{de}}
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* ''[http://proxy.ge.tt/1/files/9FTtU1K1/0/blob?pdf O mundo codificado. Por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação]'', trans. Raquel Abi-Sâmara, São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2007, 224 pp; 2nd ed., 2010. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''[http://proxy.ge.tt/1/files/9FTtU1K1/0/blob?pdf O mundo codificado. Por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação]'', trans. Raquel Abi-Sâmara, São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2007, 224 pp; 2nd ed., 2010. {{br-pt}}
 
* ''Kommunikologie weiter denken. Die "Bochumer Vorlesungen"'', eds. Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski, intro. Friedrich A. Kittler, afterw. Silvia Wagnermaier, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2009, 320 pp. [http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/598725105.PDF TOC]. Review: [http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/673 Bidlo] (RKM). [http://flusserstream.khm.de] {{de}}
 
* ''Kommunikologie weiter denken. Die "Bochumer Vorlesungen"'', eds. Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski, intro. Friedrich A. Kittler, afterw. Silvia Wagnermaier, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2009, 320 pp. [http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/598725105.PDF TOC]. Review: [http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/673 Bidlo] (RKM). [http://flusserstream.khm.de] {{de}}
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* ''Box O Último Juízo: Gerações'' [1965ff], 2 vols., eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É realizações, 2017, 816 pp. [https://www.erealizacoes.com.br/produto/box-o-ultimo-juizo-geracoes] {{br-pt}}
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** 2 chapters in ''Cavalo Azul'', ed. Dora Ferreira da Silva, 1965. {{br-pt}}
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** [[Media:Flusser_Vilem_The_Holy_See_An_Extract_from_The_Last_Judgment_Generations_2019.pdf|''The Holy See: An Extract from "The Last Judgment: Generations"'']], trans. & intro. Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes, New York and Pittsburg: Flugschriften, 2019. Trans. of Chapter 1. {{en}}
  
 
===Book chapters, papers, articles, talks (selection)===
 
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/8/88/Flusser_Vilem_Vom_Subjekt_zum_Projekt_Menschwerdung.pdf#page=4 "Vom Projezieren"], in Flusser, ''Schriften 3. Vom Subjekt zum Projekt. Menschwerdung'', 1994, pp 9-27. {{de}}
 
* [https://monoskop.org/images/8/88/Flusser_Vilem_Vom_Subjekt_zum_Projekt_Menschwerdung.pdf#page=4 "Vom Projezieren"], in Flusser, ''Schriften 3. Vom Subjekt zum Projekt. Menschwerdung'', 1994, pp 9-27. {{de}}
 
** [[Media:Flusser_Vilem_1994_2009_O_proetsirovanii.pdf|"O proetsirovanii"]] [О проецировании], trans. Mikhail Stepanov, ''Khora'' [Хора] 3-4, 2009, pp 65-76. {{ru}}
 
** [[Media:Flusser_Vilem_1994_2009_O_proetsirovanii.pdf|"O proetsirovanii"]] [О проецировании], trans. Mikhail Stepanov, ''Khora'' [Хора] 3-4, 2009, pp 65-76. {{ru}}
 
* [https://flugschriftencom.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/flugschriften-3-vilem-flusser-the-holy-see.pdf "The Holy See: An Extract from ''The Last Judgment: Generations''"], trans. Rodrigo Maltez-Novaez, ''Flugschriften'', New York and Pittsburg, 19 Mar  2019. {{en}}
 
  
 
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Edith and Vilém Flusser with their sons Victor and Mischa, São Paulo, airport, 1969 or 1970.
Born May 12, 1920(1920-05-12)
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Died November 27, 1991(1991-11-27) (aged 71)
near Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Vilém Flusser (1920–91) was a media philosopher and writer born in Prague. He held Brazilian citizenship and wrote most of his work in German and Brazilian Portuguese.

Flusser's work notably elaborates a theory of communication, theorising the epochal shift from what he termed "linear thinking" (based on writing) toward a new form of multidimensional, visual thinking embodied by digital culture. For him, these new modes and technologies of communication make possible a society (the "telematic" society) in which dialogue between people becomes the supreme value. Flusser draws from Martin Buber, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn, among others.

In 1939, Flusser emigrated together with his future wife Edith Barth from Nazi occupied Prague via London to São Paulo (1941). Later they lived in Rio de Janeiro (1950-72), Meran, Italy (1972-75), south of France (1975-81) and Robion, Provence (from 1981). [1]

Works

Monographs

Natural:mente: vários acessos ao significado da natureza, 1979. ARG (PT).
Towards A Philosophy of Photography, 1983–. Log (DE, EN, PT, ES, HU, CZ, RU).
Into the Universe of Technical Images, 1985–. Log (DE, HU, CZ, EN).
Bodenlos: Eine philosophische Autobiographie, 1992. Log (DE).
  • [Das XX. Jahrhundert. Versuch einer subjektiven Synthese], [1957ff], c200 pp. Unfinished manuscript. [2] (German)
  • Língua e realidade, São Paulo: Herder, 1963, 238 pp; São Paulo: Annablume, 2004; 2009, 232 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Jazyk a skutečnost, trans. Karel Palek, Triáda, 2005, 200 pp. Introduction. (Czech)
    • Language and Reality, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, forthcoming. (English)
  • A história do diabo, São Paulo: Martins, 1965, 216 pp; São Paulo: Annablume, 2010. Manuscript finished by 1958. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Die Geschichte des Teufels, ed. Andreas Müller-Pohle, Göttingen: European Photography, 1993; 2nd ed., 1996, 200 pp; 3rd ed., 2006. [3] (German)
    • Příběh ďábla, trans. Jiří Fiala, Galerie Gema, 1997, 185 pp. [4] (Czech)
    • The History of the Devil, trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 220 pp. [5] (English)
  • Da religiosidade: a literatura e o senso de realidade, São Paulo: Conselho estadual de cultura, 1967, 147 pp; São Paulo: Escrituras, 2002. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • La force du quotidien, trans. Jean Mesrie and Barbara Niceall, pref. Abraham Moles, Paris: Mame, 1973, 146 pp; 1989. Review: Feller (Comm et lang). (French)
  • Le monde codifié, Conférence du 3 Mai 1973, Paris: Institut de l'Environment/Centre de Formation Permanente pour les Arts Plastiques, 1974, 48 pp. (French)
    • O mundo codificado, São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2007. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Orthonature/Paranature, Institut Scientifique de recherche paranaturaliste, 1978. (French)
  • Natural:mente: vários acessos ao significado da natureza, São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1979, 148 pp; 2011, 164 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Vogelflüge: Essays zu Natur und Kultur, ed. Michael Krueger, Munich: Carl Hanser, 2000, 136 pp. (German)
    • Natural:Mind, trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 150 pp. [6] (English)
  • Pós-história: vinte istantâneos e um modo de usar, São Paulo: Duas Cidades, 1983, 168 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Post-History, trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2013, 167 pp. [7] (English)
  • Für eine Philosophie der Fotografie, Göttingen: European Photography, 1983, 58 pp; new ed., rev., 1989, 77 pp; upd.ed., 1997, 77 pp. [8] (German)
    • Towards A Philosophy of Photography, ed. Derek Bennett, Göttingen: European Photography, 1984, 62 pp. (English)
    • Filosofia da caixa preta. Ensaios para uma futura filosofia da fotografia, trans. Vilém Flusser, São Paulo: Hucitec, 1985, 92 pp; Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 2002. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Per una filosofia della fotografia, trans. Chantal Marazia, Torino: Agorà, 1987; Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2006, 128 pp. Review. (Italian)
    • For fotografiets filosofi, Horten: Preus Fotomuseum, 1987. [9] (Norwegian)
    • En filosofi för fotografin, trans. Jan-Erik Lundström, Göteborg: Korpen, 1988, 112 pp. [10] (Swedish)
    • Hacia una filosofía de la fotografía, trans. Eduardo Molina, México, D.F.: Trillas, 1990, 78 pp. (Spanish)
    • A fotográfia filozófiája, trans. Panka Veress and István Sebesi, Budapest: Tartóshullám - Belvedere - ELTE BTK, 1990. (Hungarian)
    • Bir fotoğraf felsefesine doğru, trans. İhsan Derman, Istanbul: Agac, 1991; Ankara: Med-Campus, 1994, 53 pp; Istanbul: Hayalbaz Kitap, 2009, 97 pp. (Turkish)
    • Shashin no tetsugaku no tame ni: tekunoroji to vijuaru karucha, trans. Fukagawa Masafumi, Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1992; 1999, iii+192 pp. (Japanese)
    • Za filosofii fotografie, trans. Božena Koseková and Josef Kosek, 1994, PDF; 2nd ed., Prague: Fra, 2013, 104 pp. [11] (Czech)
    • She ying de zhe xue si kao, trans. Wenji Li, Taipei: Yuan-Liou, 1994, 101 pp. (Chinese)
    • Pour une philosophie de la photographie, Paris: Circé, 1996. (French)
    • Ensaio sobre a fotografia: para uma filosofia da técnica, Lisbon: Relógio d'Água, 1998. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Pros mia philosophia tēs phōtographias, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 1998; 2015. (Greek)
    • Seoul: Communication Books, 1999. (Korean)
    • Za filozofiju fotografije, trans. Tijana Tubić, Belgrade: Kulturni Centar Beograda, 1999; 2005, 80 pp. (Serbian)
    • Towards A Philosophy of Photography, trans. Anthony Mathews, London: Reaktion Books, 2000. (English)
    • Una filosofía de la fotografía, trans. Thomas Schilling, Madrid: Síntesis, 2001, 192 pp. [12] (Spanish)
    • Za edna filosofia na fotografiata, trans. Angel Kalinov, Plovdiv: Horizonti, 2002, 79 pp. (Bulgarian)
    • Pentru o filosofie a fotografie, Bucharest: Idea Design & Print, 2003. (Romanian)
    • Za edna filosofia na fotografira, Moscow, 2002. (Russian)
    • Ku filozofii fotografii, trans. Jacek Maniecki, Katowice: Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Katowicach, 2004, 75 pp; new ed., intro. Piotr Zawojski, Warsaw: Aletheia, 2015, 149 pp. (Polish)
    • Filozofija fotografije, Zagreb: Scarabeus, 2007. (Croatian)
    • Een filosofie van de fotografie, trans. & afterw. Marc Geerards, Utrecht: IJzer, 2007. (Dutch)
    • Za filosofiyu fotografii [За философию фотографии], trans. G. Khaydarova, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 2008, 146 pp. (Russian)
    • K filozofiji fotografije, trans. Anja Naglič, ed. Jan Babnik, Ljubljana: ZSKZ, 2010, 90 pp. (Slovenian)
    • Filosofia da Caixa Preta, eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2018, 144 pp. [13] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Ins Universum der technischen Bilder, Göttingen: European Photography, 1985, 143 pp; upd.ed., 1992, 186 pp. [14] (German)
    • Do universa technických obrazů, trans. Jiří Fiala, Prague: OSVU, 2001, 162 pp. (Czech)
    • A technikai képek univerzuma felé, trans. József Maleczki, 2001; rev.trans. Dalma Török, 2011. (Hungarian)
    • O universo das imagens técnicas: elogio da superficialidade, rev. Gustavo Bernardo, São Paulo: Annablume, 2008, 150 pp, PDF; 2010. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Into the Universe of Technical Images, trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 224 pp. (English)
    • Hacia el universo de las imagenes técnicas, trans. Fernando Zamora Águila, México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011, 156 pp. (Spanish)
    • In het universum van de technische beelden, trans. Marc Geerards, afterw. Arjen Mulder, Utrecht: IJzer, 2014, 239 pp. (Dutch)
    • El universo de las imágenes técnicas: elogio de la superficialidad, intro. & notes Claudia Kozak, trans. Julia Tomasini, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2015, 192 pp. (Spanish)
  • Die Schrift. Hat Schreiben Zukunft?, Göttingen: Immatrix, 1987, 158 pp, book with 2 floppy disks; 2nd ed., exp., 1989, 159 pp; new ed., upd., 1992, 154 pp. [15] (German)
    • Dijit'ŏl sidae ŭi kŭl ssŭgi: kŭl ssŭgi e mirae nŭn innŭn'ga, trans. Chong-sŏk Yun, Seoul: Munye Ch'ulp'ansa, 1996, 317 pp. (Korean)
    • Az írás. Van-e jövője az írásnak?, trans. J.A. Tillmann and Lídia Jósvai, Balassi Kiadó - BAE Tartóshullám - Intermedia, 1997. (Hungarian)
    • Ē graphē: echei mellon to graphein, trans. Giōrgos Ē. Ēliopoulos, Athens: Potamos, 2003, 270 pp. (Greek)
    • A escrita: há futuro para a escrita?, trans. Murilo Jardelino da Costa, São Paulo: Annablume, 2010, 178 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Does Writing Have a Future?, trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 208 pp. (English)
  • Angenommen. Eine Szenenfolge, Göttingen: Immatrix Publications, 1989; Göttingen: European Photography, 2000, 80 pp. [17] (German)
  • with Jean Baudrillard and Hannes Böhringer, Philosophien der neuen Technologien, Berlin: Merve, 135 pp, 1989. (German)

Writings, lectures, interviews and correspondence published in book form posthumously

Gesten. Versuch einer Phänomenologie, 1991–. PDF (DE, ES).
Dinge und Undinge: phänomenologische Skizzen, 1993–. PDF (DE), HTML (HU).
Zwiegespräche: Interviews 1967-1991, 1996. Log (DE).
Writings, 2002. Log (EN).
  • Bodenlos. Eine philosophische Autobiographie, afterw. Milton Vargas, notes Edith Flusser and Stefan Bollmann, Bensheim and Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1992, 295 pp; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1999. (German)
    • Bezedno: filosofická autobiografie, Prague: Hynek, 1998, 225 pp. (Czech)
    • Bodenlos: Uma autobiografia filosofica, São Paulo: Annablume, 2010. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Nachgeschichten. Essays, Vorträge, Glossen, ed. Volker Rapsch, Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1990, 229 pp. (German)
  • Gesten. Versuch einer Phänomenologie, Bensheim and Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1991, 274 pp; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1994, 239 pp.
    • Los gestos. Fenomenología y comunicación, trans. Claudio Gancho, Barcelona: Herder, 1994, 210 pp. (Spanish)
    • Les gestes, HC, 1999. (French)
    • three selected texts, trans. Jiří Fiala, in Revolver Revue 56 (2004). (Czech)
    • Gestures, trans. Nancy Ann Roth, University of Minnesota Press, 2014, xi+193 pp, PDF, ARG (English)
    • 빌렘 플루서 지음, 〈몸짓들〉, trans. 안규철 옮김, Seoul: Workroom, 2018, 264 pp. [18] (Korean)
  • Vilém Flusser: Virtuelle Räume - simultane Welten, ed. & intro. Sabine Kraft, Special issue of ARCH+: Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau 111 (1992), pp 18-85. Selected texts. (German)
  • Klaus Nüchtern, Vilém Flusser: ein Gespräch, Göttingen: European Photography, 1992. (German)
  • Ende der Geschichte, ende der Stadt?, Vienna: Picus, 1992, 56 pp. Lecture delivered on 13 Mar 1991 at the Wiener Rathaus; incl. interview with Hubert Christian Ehalt. (German)
  • Schriften, eds. Stefan Bollmann and Edith Flusser, Bensheim and Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1993-94. (German)
    • vol 1, Lob der Oberflächlichkeit. Für eine Phänomenologie der Medien, 1993, 335 pp; 1995. (German)
    • vol 2, Nachgeschichte. Eine korrigierte Geschichtsschreibung, 1993; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1997, 336 pp. (German)
    • vol 3, Vom Subjekt zum Projekt. Menschwerdung, 1994, 288 pp; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1998. (German)
      • サブジェクトからプロジェクトへ, trans. Junichi Murakami, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1996. (Japanese)
    • vol 4, Kommunikologie, 1996, 355 pp; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1998; 2007. TOC. (German)
      • "Umbruch der menschlichen Beziehungen" (manuscript), 174 pp. (German)
      • Tekunokodo no tanjo, trans. Junichi Murakami, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1997. (Japanese)
      • Komunikológia, Bratislava: Mediálny inštitút, 2001. (Slovak)
      • Komunikológija, Belgrade: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum, 2015. (Serbian)
    • vol 5, Brasilien oder die Suche nach dem neuen Menschen. Für eine Phänomenologie der Unterentwicklung, 1994, 336 pp. (German)
  • Dinge und Undinge: phänomenologische Skizzen, ed. Michael Krueger, Munich and Vienna: Carl Hanser, 1993, 150 pp. (German)
    • Choses et non-choses: esquisses phenomenologiques, Nimes: Jacqueline Chambon, 1996. (French)
    • Az ágy, trans. Zoltán Sebők, Budapest: Kijárat Kiadó, 1996. (Hungarian)
  • Von der Freiheit des Migranten. Einsprüche gegen den Nationalismus, ed. Stefan Bollmann, Bensheim: Bollmann, 1994; Berlin: Philo, 2000. (German)
    • The Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism, ed. Anke K. Finger, University of Illinois Press, 2003, 136 pp; 2013, 136 pp. (English)
  • Jude sein. Essays, Briefe, Fiktionen, eds. Stefan Bollmann and Edith Flusser, Mannheim: Bollmann, 1995, 189 pp; new ed., Berlin and Vienna, 2001. (German)
  • Die Revolution der Bilder. Der Flusser-Reader zu Kommunikation, Medien und Design, Mannheim: Bollmann, 1995; 2nd ed., 1996, 236 pp. (German)
  • Zwiegespräche: Interviews 1967-1991, ed. Klaus Sander, Göttingen: European Photography, 1996, 255 pp. [20] (German)
  • Moc obrazu: Výbor filosofických textů z 80. a 90. let, trans. Jiří Fiala and Jana Maixnerová, Special Issue of Výtvarné umění 3-4 (1996). [21] (Czech)
  • Medienkultur, ed. Stefan Bollmann, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 2nd ed., 1997, 240 pp; 2008. (German) [22]
  • Standpunkte. Texte zur Fotografie, ed. Andreas Müller-Pohle, Göttingen: European Photography, 1998, 255 pp. [23] (German)
  • Fenomenologia do Brasileiro: em busca de um novo homem, ed. Gustavo Bernardo, Rio de Janeiro: Eduerj, 1998. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Ficções filosóficas, eds. Milton Vargas and Maria Lília Leão, São Paulo: EDUSP, 1998. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Von der Freiheit des Migranten. Einsprüche Gegen den Nationalismus, Berlin and Vienna, 2000. (German)
  • Die Revolutionen der Bilder: der Flusser-Reader zu Kommunikation, Medien, und Design, ed. Stefan Bollmann, Mannheim: Bollmann, 1995. (German)
  • A dúvida [1966], ed. Dilmo Milheiros, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999; São Paulo: Annablume, 2011, 122 pp, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • On Doubt, trans. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, ed. Siegfried Zielinski, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2014, 100 pp. [24] (English)
    • Da Dúvida, eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2018, 200 pp. [25] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Briefe an Alex Bloch, eds. Edith Flusser and Klaus Sander, Göttingen: European Photography, 2000. [26] (German)
  • Writings, trans. Erik Eisel, ed. Andreas Ströhl, University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 229 pp. (English)
  • absolute Vilém Flusser, eds. Nils Röller and Silvia Wagnermaier, Freiburg: Orange-Press, 2003. (German)
  • Flusser’s View on Art: MECAD Online Seminar, Barcelona: MECAD, 2004.
  • La cultura dei media, ed. Andrea Borsari, Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2004. (Italian)
  • Vom Zweifel, ed. Andreas Müller-Pohle, Göttingen: European Photography, 2006, 64 pp. [27] (German)
  • O mundo codificado. Por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação, trans. Raquel Abi-Sâmara, São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2007, 224 pp; 2nd ed., 2010. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Kommunikologie weiter denken. Die "Bochumer Vorlesungen", eds. Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski, intro. Friedrich A. Kittler, afterw. Silvia Wagnermaier, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2009, 320 pp. TOC. Review: Bidlo (RKM). [28] (German)
  • Box O Último Juízo: Gerações [1965ff], 2 vols., eds. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes and Rodrigo Petronio, São Paulo: É realizações, 2017, 816 pp. [29] (Brazilian Portuguese)

Book chapters, papers, articles, talks (selection)

  • "Filosofia da linguagem", Ita-Humanidades 2 (1966), pp 133-210. Ten lectures held at Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in São Paulo in 1965. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • "Da ficção", Jornal O Diário de Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 26 Aug 1966. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "On Fiction", trans. Derek Hales and Erick Felinto, &&&, 12 May 2016. (English)
  • "Auf der Suche nach Bedeutung", trans. Edith Flusser with Vera Schwamborn, Tendenzen der aktuellen Philosophie in Brasilien in Selbstbildnissen 27 (1975), São Paulo: Loyola. Autobiographical essay, written in English and Portuguese in Oct-Nov 1969 in São Paulo. See also Bodenlos, 1999. (German)
    • "Em busca do significado", in Stanislaus Ladusãns, Rumos da filosofia atual no Brasil em auto-retratos, São Paulo: Loyola, 1976, pp 493-506. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "In Search of Meaning (Philosophical Self-portrait)", in Flusser, Writings, 2002, pp 197-208. (English)
  • "Cultura dos 'Imateriais'?", Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência 3, Nov 1985. (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • Immaterialism, Metaflux Publishing, 2015, 38 pp. This edition presents Flusser's English version of the text, designed as a visual poem by the artist Chagrin. (English)
  • "Die Stadt als Wellental in der Bilderflut", in Nachgeschichten, 1990. Written in 1988. Repr. in Arch+ 111 (March 1992), pp 58-63 [31]; Die Revolutionen der Bilder, 1995; Medienkultur, 1997, pp 178-179. (German)
  • "Projektion statt Linearität", in Strategien des Scheins. Kunst Computer Medien, eds. Florian Rötzer and Peter Weibel, Munich, 1991, pp 93-95. (German)
  • "Räume", in außen räume innen räume. Der Wandel des Raumbegriffs im Zeitalter der elektronischen Medien, ed. Heidemarie Seblatnig, Vienna: Universitäts Verlag, 1991, pp 75-83; repr. in Raumtheorie. Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, eds. Jörg Dünne and Stephan Günzel, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2006, pp 274-285. (German)
  • "Der Blick des Designers", Design Report 18/19, Dec 1991. (German)
  • "Von Formen und Formein", Design Report 20/21, Jun 1992. (German)
  • "Vom Projezieren", in Flusser, Schriften 3. Vom Subjekt zum Projekt. Menschwerdung, 1994, pp 9-27. (German)
    • "O proetsirovanii" [О проецировании], trans. Mikhail Stepanov, Khora [Хора] 3-4, 2009, pp 65-76. (Russian)

Audio and video documentation

  • Schlagworte—Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser, Cologne: WDR, 1986, 13 min. Video documentation by Harun Farocki.
  • [Fotografie a dějiny], Prague House of Photography, Prague, Jun 1991. Lecture. 7 min excerpt. (Czech)
  • Die Informationsgesellschaft: Phantom oder Realität?, eds. Thomas Knöfel and Klaus Sander, Cologne: supposé, 1991, 45 min. An audio CD documentation of Flusser’s lecture at the conference CULTEC–Culture and Technology in the Twenty-first Century in Essen on 23 November.
  • Vilém Flussers Fluß, Cologne: 235 Media, 1994, 45 min. A video documentation shot in August 1991 by Michael Bielicky.
  • Heimat und Heimatlosigkeit, Cologne: supposé, 1999. Audio CD.
  • We Shall Survive in the Memories of Others, eds. C3 Budapest and Vilém-Flusser-Archiv Berlin, 2010, 87 min. DVD in 7 languages, video recordings of lectures and interviews from 1988-1991, with a booklet in English. Watch online (all four videos). TOC.

Bibliography

Printed
  • in Flusser, Kommunikologie weiter denken, 2009, pp 285ff. (German)
  • in Guldin, Philosophieren zwischen den Sprachen: Vilém Flussers Werk, 2005, pp 378-386. [32] (German)
  • in Flusser, Writings, 2002, pp 209-218. (English)
Online

Archives, Centres

Literature

Journals

Monographs

  • Volker Rapsch (ed.), überflusser: Die Fest-schrift zum 70. von Vilém Flusser, Düsseldorf: Bollmann, 1990. (German)
  • Elizabeth Neswald, Medien-Theologie: Das Werk Vilém Flussers, Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau, 1998. (German)
  • International Flusser Lectures, eds. Vilém Flusser Archiv at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and UdK Berlin, Cologne: Walther König, 1999-. (German)
    • Dietmar Kamper, First International Flusser Lecture. Körper-Abstraktionen. Das anthropologische Viereck von Raum, Fläche, Linie und Punkt, 2000.
    • Timothy Druckrey, Second International Flusser Lecture. Medien, Gedächtnis, Moderne, 2001.
  • Gustavo Bernardo Krause, Ricardo Mendes (eds.), Vilém Flusser no Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2000. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Gottfried Jäger (ed.), Fotografie denken. Über Vilém Flussers Philosophie der Medienmoderne, Bielefeld: Kerber, 2001. (German)
  • Ricardo Mendes, Vilém Flusser: uma história do diabo, São Paulo: Edusp, 2001. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Rainer Guldin, Philosophieren zwischen den Sprachen: Vilém Flussers Werk, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2005, 386 pp. (German) [33]
  • Thomas Karlsohn, Passage mellan medier: Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften, Göteborg: Folkuniversitetets Akademiska Press, 2006, 426 pp. (Swedish) [34] Review, Review.
  • Gustavo Bernardo, Anke Finger, Rainer Guldin, Vilém Flusser: uma introdução, São Paulo, Brazil: Annablume, 2008, 151 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Oliver Fahle, Michael Hanke, Andreas Zimmermann (eds.), Technobilder und Kommunikologie. Die Medientheorie Vilém Flussers, Berlin, 2009. (German)
  • Eva Batlickova, A época brasileira de Vilém Flusser, São Paulo: Annablume, 2010. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Marcel René Marburger, Flusser und die Kunst, Cologne, 2011. (German)
  • Andreas Ströhl, Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Phänomenologie der Kommunikation, Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau, 2013, 254 pp. (German)
    • Vilém Flusser: Fenomenologie komunikace, trans. Zuzana Jürgens and Jana Vymazalová, Prague: Argo, 2016, 255 pp. [35] (Czech)
  • Melentie Pandilovski, Tom Kohut (eds.), Marshall McLuhan + Vilém Flusser's Communication + Aesthetic Theories Revisited, Winnipeg: Video Pool Media Arts Centre, 2015. Proceedings of the 2012 conference. [36] (English)
  • Siegfried Zielinski, Peter Weibel, Daniel Irrgang (eds.), Flusseriana: An Intellectual Toolbox, Minneapolis, MN: Univocal, 2015, 496 pp. [37] (English)
  • Gustavo Bernardo, Rainer Guldin, O homen sem chão: a biografia de Vilém Flusser, São Paulo: Annablume, 2017. Introduction. (Brazilian Portuguese)

Theses

Biographies

Conferences with/on Flusser

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