All posts tagged: Book

Jean Baudrillard ~ The Ecstasy of Communication

Philosophy / Quotes

  Here are a couple of really valuable quotes from Baudrillards’s book The Ecstasy of Communication, I will no doubt be drawing from this book in my future research.  ‘Today the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network.” (2012, 20) “The public stage, the public place have been replaced by a gigantic circulation, ventilation, and ephemeral connecting space.” (2012, 25) Baudrillard, J., 2012, The ecstasy of communication, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles

Vilém Flusser ~ Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Philosophy / Photography / Quotes

  Over the past couple of days I have read Vilem Flusser’s book  Towards A  Philosophy Of Photography. Here are some of quotes I found to be of particular interest to me: “The Magical nature of images must be taken into account when decoding them. Thus it is wrong to look for ‘Frozen Events’ in images. Rather they replace events by states of things and translate them into scenes.” (2013: 9) I find this to be […]