Flusser and the CCD
Flusser and the CCD
For Flusser, codes embedded in any apparatus feed on human use to produce new combinations to assimilate into the apparatus itself. This more general application of the word apparatus includes not only the mechanical device but the ensemble formed by manufacture, clubs, publications, galleries, newspapers and magazines, people and their institutions. Flusser's 'apparatus' is an institution: an ordering of social interactions which produces its own type of language (discourse), its own mode of knowledge, its own idea of truth. Unhampered by moral judgements external to its own operation, its goal is maximal efficiency. The apparatus operates in and as a regime of power, in much the same way as the clinics, asylums and prisons investigated in Michel Foucault's early writings
Cubitt, Sean
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November 2010
Cubitt, Sean
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Cubitt, Sean
(2010)
Flusser and the CCD.
Flusser Studies, 10.
Abstract
For Flusser, codes embedded in any apparatus feed on human use to produce new combinations to assimilate into the apparatus itself. This more general application of the word apparatus includes not only the mechanical device but the ensemble formed by manufacture, clubs, publications, galleries, newspapers and magazines, people and their institutions. Flusser's 'apparatus' is an institution: an ordering of social interactions which produces its own type of language (discourse), its own mode of knowledge, its own idea of truth. Unhampered by moral judgements external to its own operation, its goal is maximal efficiency. The apparatus operates in and as a regime of power, in much the same way as the clinics, asylums and prisons investigated in Michel Foucault's early writings
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