Esquecer em Vilém Flusser: memória e esquecimento na pós-história tecnoimagética

Abstract

The proposes of this work is to study the forgetting ways in contemporaneity based on how the dynamics of communication are organized, evoking a communication theorist with an vast publications works on the relation of memory and the recent media: Vilém Flusser. Although the Czech-Brazilian philosopher has made a series of reflections about religion, language, culture, etc., it is on memory that our purpose is established: in it, it is possible to understand that Flusserian thought is centred on the restlessness of the media's role in storing, processing and transmitting information that constitutes and reconstitutes history. The contemporary world points out to an informational system where realities are being tested at every moment and history and scientific and cultural institutions are under questioning, by means, for example, of phenomena such as fake news or the algorithmization of data. In his diagnoses and prognoses, Vilém Flusser deals with the simultaneity of crises that, today, result in a world permeated by technological apparatus and technical images acting on our perception of the world and on the way we conceive historical narratives. For this investigation, I will link Flusser's conceptions of memory to three dimensions, represented by the work of the authors Jeanne... (forget and remember), Huyssen (memory culture) and Beiguelman (aesthetics and art), under the theoretical framework of Wiener's theory of cybernetics. Norbert Wiener is an author of our time to elucidate the theory of Cybernetics and reveal what is essential in the Flusserian triad, also present in German media theories, storage-processing-transmission. And also to deal with the aesthetics and the politics of memory and forgetfulness, relying on Giselle Beiguelman and the critique of some contemporary artistic manifestations imbricated to communication technologies. As the themes of the Praguean thinker intersect, the cartographic methodology, in our view, is adequate to cut out Vilém Flusser's enunciations involving memory, media, and art in the best possible way.