Intersubjectivity:	media metaphors, play & provocation
	6th international Vilém Flusser symposium & event series march 15-19 1997 budapest hungary

Dietmar Kamper
lecturer

Born 1936 in Erkelenz, Germany.
Studies in Cologne, Tübingen, Munich.
1959 Graduated as Physical Training Instructor
1963 Ph.D.
1972 Lecturer of Educational Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology
1973-79 Professor of Educational Sciences at the University of Marburg
Since 1979 Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Berlin (Institute for Sociology and Anthropology)

Areas of Interest:
Socialisation and education; family sociology; theory of civilisation, especially history of the body; philosophical and historical anthropology; sociology of imagination, aesthetics

Publications:
Geschichte und menschliche Natur (1973)
Zur Geschichte des Körpers (1976)
Zur Geschichte der Einbildungskraft (1981)
Das gefangene Einhorn (1983)
Zur Soziologie der Imagination (1986)
Hieroglyphen der Zeit (1988)
Umgang mit der Zeit. Paradoxe Wiederholungen, in: W. Kaempfer: Die Zeit und die Uhren (1991)
Bildstörungen (1994); Unmögliche Gegenwart (1995)
Abgang vom Kreuz (1996)

Since 1991 he has been organising international transdisciplinary seminars on historic anthropology with Ch. Wulf. Publications resulting from this activity:
Die Wiederkehr des Körpers (1982)
Der andere Körper (1984); Lachen, Gelaechter, Laecheln (1986)
Das Heilige. Seine Spur in der Moderne (1986); Die sterbende Zeit (1987)
Die erloschene Seele (1988); Der Schein des Schönen (1988)
Das Schicksal der Liebe (1988); Transfigurationen des Körpers (1989)
Rüblick aus das Ende der Welt (1990); Schweigen (1992)

"The Zero-Dimension of Pictures: Vilem Flusser's Reversing of the Imagination"
lecture for the Symposium - abstract

Having some knowledge of the history of imagination, the sociology of imagination and the theory of fantasy, I would like to refute my own thesis on the "Impossible Presence of Pictures" on the basis of Vilém Flusser’s essay, "A New Imagination." The suggestion of an image-asceticism connected with this theory will be countered, using Flusser’s thesis of new pictures, which are produced, calculated, computed and digitalised from the zero-dimension. Thus, a "new iconoclastic" notion is confronted with a "new iconodulistic" one. If they collide, sparks might spray.

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Intersubjectivity: media metaphors, play & provocation Advisory Committee: László Beke, director, Műcsarnok; Wolfgang Meissner director, Goethe-Institut Budapest; Matthias Müller-Wieferig, Goethe-Institut Budapest; Miklós Peternák, chair of the board, C3; Zoltán Sebôk, theoretician; J.A.Tillmann, theoretician; Organizers:Suzanne Mészöly, programdirector C3 Ágnes Veronika Kovács , coordinator C3 Adele Eisenstein, koordinátor C3 See the Goethe institute's website on Flusser Symposium: http://www.goethe.de/ms/bud/depsymp.htm

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