News

• On April 15 and 16 2016 was held the international symposium “Transcoding Flusser: Synthetic Thinking” with the participation of Rainer Guldin, Fiona Hanley, Katerina Krtilova, Peter Mahr, Marcel René Marburger, Arjen Mulder, Simone Osthoff and Polona Tratnik. The symposium was convened and moderated by Baruch Gottlieb and Steffi Winkler. Part of the proceedings will be published in the upcoming issue of Flusser Studies.
  (http://westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/16_04_Flusser/more1).
• From March 19 to May 7 2016 the exposition “Without Firm Ground. Vilém Flusser and the Arts” organized in collaboration with the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin was to be seen at West Den Haag (http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/16_04_Flusser).

Publications

• Eco-Pos (UERJ Rio de Janeiro), special issue dedicated to Vilém Flusser (v. 19, n. 1, 2016), ed. by Erick Felinto and Julio Bezerra (https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/eco_pos/issue/view/323/showToc).
• Teófilo Augusto Da Silva, A busca pela clarificação da Caixa-Preta: Complementos ao conceito de programa de Vilém Flusser, Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 2016.
• Vilém Flusser, Philosophy of Language, Univocal, 2016 -  foreword by Sean Cubitt, translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes (http://www.univocalpublishing.com/univocal-books/philosophy-of-language).  The “Flusser Archive Collection” will be finished with the following three titles over the next 2-3 years: Language and Reality, Foundational Concepts of Western Thought and The Influence of Existential Thought Today.
• Rodrigo Duarte and Thomas Friedrich (eds.), Kulturdialog bei Vilém Flusser, Lit Verlag, forthcoming 2016 (http://www.lit-verlag.ch/isbn/3-643-13453-0).

Call for Papers

• The upcoming May 2017 issue of Flusser Studies is being organized by Eva Batličková and Rainer Guldin. The focus of the issue is upon Vilém Flusser’s relationship to Judaism and the influence of Jewish culture on his thinking and writing. There is a broad range of possible approaches to Flusser’s work with relation to Judaism: Flusser’s early Zionist leanings, the influence of Jewish culture on his thinking and writing, the presence of Jewish elements in his work (for instance the late discovery of the notion of Pilpul), the question of Auschwitz and its relation to Bodenlosigkeit and post-history, as well as the importance of Jewish writers and thinkers like his cousin David Flusser, Martin Buber, Agnon and Franz Kafka.
  The deadline for submissions for the issue is January 15, 2017. We look forward to hearing from and working with you. Please let us know if you are interested in contributing and if you have any questions.
  eva.batlickova@gmail.com / guldinr@usi.ch