Vilem Flusser's Brazilian cities

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Author(s):	Philipson, Gabriel Salvi Total Authors: 1
Document type:	Journal article
Source:	JOURNAL OF MODERN JEWISH STUDIES; v. N/A, p. 21-pg., 2023-02-24.
Abstract
This essay proposes that the motif of cities has a decisive role in the operation and articulation of Flusser's thinking of exile. Crossing the most diverse moments and types of Flusser's writing, cities appear as a nodule that interlinks and connects it. By focusing particularly on Flusser's texts on Brazilian cities, this study looks at some of the ways in which this crossing occurs to suggest the necessity of reorganizing the whole Flusserian corpus, by reconsidering its phases and movements and by reexamining the assumption that Flusser questions Zweig's concept of "country of the future". Then, by analyzing the philosophical treatment of "Grandfather" in Bom Retiro, in Sao Paulo, and in two undated "urban" poems by Flusser, this paper finally considers the relations between thought, exile, being Jewish, cities, and Brazilian-ness. (AU)

FAPESP's process:	17/27004-7 - Literary Philosophy journalistic philosophic quasi-poetry: Philosophy, Literture and institution in the 1960s in São Paulo from the perspective of V. Flusser
Grantee:	Gabriel Salvi Philipson
Support Opportunities:	Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate