Between the words and the technical images: : Vilém Flusser and Walter Benjamin

• Autor(a) principal: Alonso, Rafael Miguel
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Artefilosofia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/1902
• topic: Technique; Surface; Knowledge; Walter Benjamin; Vilém Flusser.; técnica; superfície; conhecimento; epistemologia; Flusser; Benjamin

From the premise of Siegfried Kracauer, according to which the aesthetic pleasure experienced by the mass at surface spectacles is legitimate and that it is possible to understand an epoch through its despised and despicable manifestations, this essay aims to analyze the understandings of Walter Benjamin and Vilém Flusser about the relationship between technical images and forms of knowledge. The reflection starts from the assumption that both authors glimpse, despite their vigilant pessimism, a critical form of thought through technique. The superficial character of the synthetic images would also not depart from the projective and fragmented aspect of an imaginative and non-Cartesian structure of thought. In any case, the possibility of a political and poetic use of images depends, for the two thinkers, on the interposition of the word. In Flusser’s terms, the task is to respond to post-history with the weapons of history.