Abstract
This chapter examines Vilém Flusser’s ideas on communication and media theory. It discusses Flusser’s 1970 lecture Kommunikologie(“What Is Communication?”), in which Flusser sketches the significant aspects of his communication theory and considers human communication from an existential point of view, addressing the question on why people communicate at all. According to Flusser, communication is an artificial, intentional, dialogic, and collective act of freedom that creates codes that help people forget inevitable death and the senselessness of existence. This chapter concludes with an analysis of Flusser’s response to how people manage to create, store, and distribute information to make conditions as human beings acceptable.
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