Date of Completion
4-21-2020
Embargo Period
4-19-2030
Keywords
German, Vilém Flusser
Major Advisor
Anke Finger
Associate Advisor
Katharina von Hammerstein
Associate Advisor
Sebastian Wogenstein
Field of Study
German
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Open Access
Campus Access
Abstract
Vilém Flusser was a migrant and nomad, exiled, uprooted, without firm ground. He was an industrious essayist and 20th-century pioneer in media and communication theory and among other scholars, paved the way for what we now call Digital Humanities. Flusser’s own theories on rhizomatic and hypertextual writings are connected with his autobiographical theory, as “[t]his structure is given to us through the language within which we think, just as irrevocably as it is given to the spider through the web” (Vilém Flusser, On Doubt 40). This dissertation seeks to explore and illustrate Flusser’s oeuvre as exemplary model for understanding his lived theory of rhizomatic autobiographical writings.
Recommended Citation
Meredith, Britta K., "Vilém Flusser’s Rhizomatic Autobiography" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 2456.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/2456