The demon of rewriting: Vilém Flusser and conceptual writing as the future of writing

Authors

  • Luis Felipe Silveira de Abreu Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2022.191849

Keywords:

Rewriting, Apparatuses, Language, Vilém Flusser

Abstract

This essay seeks to reflect on Vilém Flusser’s provocation about the future of writing, considering contemporary literary rewriting movements, by exploratory bibliographical research. We present the contemporary movements involved in rewriting, especially those under the rubric of conceptual writing. We understand that this writing distends the informational imperative of writing, as defined by Flusser, in the direction of new possibilities for verbal language. These are realized by two gestures, as we have shown: language is understood and described by these writers as apparatus; and then this apparatus is submitted to the game by means of appropriation writing.

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Author Biography

  • Luis Felipe Silveira de Abreu, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

    Doutorando em Comunicação na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Pesquisador colaborador, em estágio-sanduíche, no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, na Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).

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Published

2022-06-29

How to Cite

The demon of rewriting: Vilém Flusser and conceptual writing as the future of writing. (2022). Novos Olhares, 11(1), 104-114. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2022.191849