Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Flusser: We may yet succeed in changing our culture before it changes us.

"We are frustrated by our culture, whether we participate [rather, have the opportunity to attempt to participate] in elite culture.  The frustration of the elite is due to its growing feeling of isolation...  We cannot 'realise' ourselves in such a situation, unless we become specialists, which means no longer fully human.  Of course, our situation may come to transform us into something no longer human...

"We may yet succeed in changing our culture before it changes us."  -- Vilem Flusser

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