I posted back in April about the prophetic and fascinating writing of the late theorist VilĂ©m Flusser which predicted the image based society, the “apparatus” that serves them and builds a feedback loop with the user, and the need for humans to develop “technical imagination” as a way of not being programmed by their own machines.

I was excited to see that art critic Martha Schwendener recently wrote a book about him since he is still relatively unknown in English speaking countries. I’m also a fan of Ben Davis' writing (especially 9.5 Theses on Art and Class). As I hoped, this podcast conversation added a lot of interesting context to the life and writing of Flusser. I hope to pick up the book at some point.