Exiled from Funland: Flusser and Agamben after the Fall

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Notes

1. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 166.

2. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 167.

3. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 168.

4. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 167.

5. Vilém Flusser, “Celebration,” in Writings, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 168.

6. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” in The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 112.

7. Flusser, “Celebration,” 169.

8. Flusser, “Celebration,” 169, 165.

9. Flusser, “Celebration,”, 169.

10. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 60.

11. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 62.

12. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 65.

13. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 60.

14. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 86.

15. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 87.

16. Giorgio Agamben, “Nudity,” in Nudities, trans. David Kshik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011), 82.

17. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171.

18. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171.

19. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171.

20. Flusser, “Celebration,” 171.

21. Flusser himself knew a thing or two about exile, having fled the Nazis to Brazil—a productive trauma on which he reflected a great deal in his writings.

22. This no doubt self-indulgent nostalgia was obscenely in evidence in the belated sequel to Tron—grandiosely named Tron Legacy—pitching itself as a second coming, of sorts.

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Dominic Pettman

Dominic Pettman is Chair of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College, as well as Associate Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School. He has held previous positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion (State University of New York Press, 2002), Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object (with Justin Clemens, Amsterdam University Press, 2004), Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age (Fordham University Press, 2006), and Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)