Vilém Flusser (Prague, May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-Brazilian philosopher, writer, and journalist, known for his reflections on technology, communication, and the image in the post-industrial era
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Born into an intellectual Jewish family, Flusser began studying philosophy at Charles University in Prague in 1938. Following the Nazi occupation, he emigrated to London in 1939 and, the following year, moved to Brazil, where he lived until his death. In Brazil, he worked in various companies and began to develop his philosophical thought, publishing articles and books in Portuguese, German, English, and French.
Among his most notable works are Language and Reality (1963), Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983), and Vampyroteuthis infernalis (1987), a philosophical fable that explores the relationship between humans and the world. In Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Flusser analyzes photography as a transcendental act and its impact on the perception of reality.
Flusser died in 1991 in a car accident on the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia, the country he had left in his youth. His legacy continues to be an essential reference in studies on technology, communication, and contemporary philosophy.
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