Into the Universe of Technical Images Quotes

“This essay will discuss that hallucinatory power. First, however, imagination must be excluded from the discussion to avoid any confusion between traditional and technical images.”
― Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images

“With this designation, the lifeworld falls into two areas: the area of the fixed, understood object and the area of the "one who understands," the human subject standing apart from objects, the area of objective conditions and that of the ex-istence of human beings. Action abstracts the subject from the lifeworld, brackets the subject out, and what remains is the three-dimensional universe of graspable objects, the problem to be solved. This universe of objects can now be transformed, informed by the subject. The result is culture.”
― Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images