Perception Quote by Vilém Flusser

““All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.””

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Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do…

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“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more…

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...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly…

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“Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my…

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Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

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The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt…

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He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera....…

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Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become…

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“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images…

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With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

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“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world…

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“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything…

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