About the Author

Vilém Flusser (1920–91) was among the most influential media and communication philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Prague, he escaped Nazi occupation to spend thirty years in Brazil and returned to Europe in the 1970s. A prolific writer, he published (in four languages) on scholarly, theoretical, essayistic, and fictional works on an impressive range of themes, including language, nature, computation, images, history, design, art, and photography. One of his many tropes are “fields of possibilities” that helped him conjecture what may arise in the near or distant future; and he encouraged his listeners and readers to apply their own imagination and play with likely projections.

Anke Finger is professor of German and media studies and comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut. The cofounder and coeditor (2005–15) of the online, peer-reviewed, multilingual journal Flusser Studies, she edited Vilém Flusser’s The Freedom of the Migrant and is a coauthor of Vilém Flusser: An Introduction. She has published numerous articles on Vilém Flusser and in media studies.

Kenneth Kronenberg has been a German translator for almost thirty years, specializing in intellectual and cultural history and diaries and letters. He is also translator of Vilém Flusser’s The Freedom of the Migrant.

Kenneth Goldsmith is a poet living in New York City. He teaches uncreative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is the editor of UbuWeb (ubu.com), the internet’s largest archive of free avant-garde materials.