“A philosophy of the new age is emerging of its own accord.”—Vilém Flusser

For the modern human being, the progression of time means above all the progression of technologies, and hardly anyone else has written about these technologies and their influences on society as informatively and revealingly as Vilém Flusser has.

In the summer of 1991, just a few months before his death in an automobile accident, he met the media artist Michael Bielicky, who recorded the encounter on video. The shots show the philosopher in conversation on “technical revolutions,” on the emergence of written culture and its (then already current) crisis, on the cultural significance of photography, and on film and computer images. That is to say, on phenomena that help shape our thinking—and therefore also our future.