Tecnoimagens da educação segundo Vilém Flusser

Abstract

Vilém Flusser’s thoughts on technique point out to his concept of post-history, meaning a predominance of “technoimages”, as opposed to pre-history, in which conventional images rule, and to history, in which writing is the main codifying process in society. In post-history, a model of mass communication rules, in which discourses are “amphitheatrical” and act to “program” people in order to transform them into “functionaries” on behalf of “apparatuses” that work automatically, totally disregarding human needs. Techno-images play a very important role in this programming process of people and may be exemplified by every bidimensional surface like photos, movies, videos etc. According to Flusser, the way to cast off the yoke of apparatuses lies in “art as inebriation” as well as in an education model that surpasses both the “industrial” modality, overcome by the advent of informatics, and the modality of education that is itself one-sidedly based on this cybernetic model.