The Society of the Screen

Martha Schwendener was the coolest head to make the rounds doing studio visits when I was a grad student at NYU. A Michigan girl and former touring musician, she now writes art criticism for the NYT, and just published THE book on Flusser after a decade of research. Can’t wait to dive in: Predicting the importance of technology and images for the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilém Flusser warned, “the basic structure of our thinking is about to experience a mutation.” The bewitch...