List of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Aaron Jaffe, Florida State University, USA, Rodrigo Martini, University of Georgia, USA, Michael F. Miller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands PART I: Processing Flusser 1. Does AI Have a Future? Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Russell Samolsky, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 2. Design/Shape Anke Finger, University of Connecticut, USA 3. Flusser in Open Circuits: The Dialogic Capacity of Video Images Daniel Irrgang, Weizenbaum-Institute, Berlin, Germany 4. Flusser and Ars Electronica: Between and Beyond Cybernetics Daniel Raschke, Florida State University, USA 5. Flusser in the Light of Radiation Clint Wilson III, Rice University, USA 6. Games and Play: On Being Human in the Universe of Technical Images Nancy Roth, Independent Scholar, USA 7. Flusser's Philosophical Backgrounds Martha Schwendener, New York University, USA 8. Flusser's Quasi-Phenomenology Andreas Max Stroehl, Goethe Institute, North America 9. Migrants, Flaneurs, Critics: Flusserian Irony and the Genealogy of Modern Cynicism Alexander B. Adkins, San Jacinto College, USA 10. Vampyroteuthis infernalis as Media Theory Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, University of British Columbia, Canada 11. Posthistory Today: Historical Time and Virality after Flusser Charles M. Tung, Seattle University, USA PART II: Flusser's Expanded Modernism 12. Demonologies Laurence A. Rickels, European Graduate School Saas-Fee, Switzerland 13. An Intersubjective Style Frances McDonald, University of Louisville, USA 14. Naked Little Spasms of the Self: In Search of an Authentic Gesture in Posthistorical Times Dominic Pettman, The New School, USA 15. The 'Pataphysical Span: Jarry and Flusser Judith Roof, Rice University, USA 16. Flusser's New Weird Keith Leslie Johnson, The College of William and Mary, USA 17. A Philosophy of Refraction: Flusser's Speculative Biology and the Study of Paramedia David Bering-Porter, The New School, USA 18. Everything Quantizes Kate Brideau, New York University, USA 19. Religious Telematics and the Archives of Memory K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, USA 20. The Challenge of Flusser: Latinidad and Its Others John Ribo, Florida State University, USA 21. On Synthesis and Synthetic Reality: Post/Modernism in Flusser's Thinking Rainer Guldin, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland 22. Fascism, Iconoclasm, and the Global Village Guy Stevenson, Goldsmiths and Queen Mary Colleges, University of London, UK 23. The Future of Writing David Golumbia, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA 24. Flusser's Linguistic Briefcase Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, Florida State University, USA 25. The Depressed Person and the Vampire Squid: Sonic Gestures in the Work of Flusser and David Foster Wallace Edward Comentale, Indiana University, USA 26. Cannibalistic Animals: Posthuman Natures in Flusser and Benjamin Erick Felinto, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil 27. Flusser's New World Aaron Jaffe, Florida State University, USA PART III: Flusser's Toolkit 28. Anti-Apparatus Melody Jue, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 29. Apparatus Blake Stricklin, University of Houston, Victoria, USA 30. Automation Seb Franklin, King's College London, UK 31. Cybernetics Heather A. Love, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 32. Dasein's Design Chris Michaels. Florida State University, USA 33. Ecology Derek Woods, University of British Columbia, Canada 34. Ethics Annie Lowe, Rice University, USA 35. Etymology Andrew Battaglia, Rice University, USA 36. Surface and Simulation Tom Tooley, Valencia College, USA 37. Technical Image Anais Nony, University College Cork, Ireland 38. Writing Andrew Pilsch, Texas A&M University, USA 39. Zetetic Maneuvers: Stalking the Continuum Adelheid Mers, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Epilogue: Between Languages and Without Discipline: A 20th Century Intellect Drafted for the 21st Siegfried Zielinski, European Graduate School Saas-Fee, Switzerland, translated from the German by Daniel Raschke, Florida State University, USA
