Vilèm Flusser: crítica estética e imagen tecno-visuals

The aesthetic shift in art is ascribed mainly to Kant and Hegel. In this context, the concept of visual image emerges, ensnaring art in the meshes of aesthetics. At that time, modernity reaches full maturity, enabling a shift in Western philosophy that aestheticizes reason. This shift is radicalized in so-called post-structuralism, and it is Vilém Flusser, with his nomadic and undisciplined nature, who introduces a radical critique of Hegelian thought, based on the "technical image" as "praise of superficiality" or, in our view, as "screen theory." The intervening and subsequent critical appr...