Contents Note on the Translation Preface -- Friedrich A. Kittler Editorial Preface: Toward Vilém Flusser's Bochum Lectures -- Silvia Wagnermaier and Siegfried Zielinski Inaugural Lecture: Before the Board of Trustees Motives/Motifs Natural and Human Sciences Communication Theory Lecture 1: On the Communicological Art of Definition Kultur/Kritik Processing: Dialogue Transmitting: Discourse Saving Mythical: Oral Culture Magical: Material Culture Standpoints Phenomenological Informatical Scientific-Critical Cultural Revolutions From Work to Waste After the Communication Revolution: Bundling versus Networking Lecture 2: Of Spaces and Order Publicizing I Publicizing III Virtual Space Alternate Worlds Calculable Freedom, Intersubjective Creativity Proxemics Responsibility Lecture 3: Abstractions and Feedback Numerical Code From Culling to Counting Arithmetic Geometry Antirationalism: Intuition and Nazism Programming Lecture 4: On Science, Art, Politics, and Technology On the Decline of the Aura and the Death of the Author Work II: Soft and Hard The Practice of Writing From Homo universale to Teamwork The Unemployed as Avant-Garde The End of Politics I Lecture 5. On the Death of Images and the End of History Video: Instant Philosophy Mirrors: Reflection and Speculation Bundling Instead of Networking--At the End of All Structures Networking Games and Art Spiele , Jogos , Games Lecture 6: About Chance and the Freedom to Play with and against It Coincidence On Freedom I: Refraining From On Freedom II: Anticipating Concerning Lost Freedom I: Sin Concerning Lost Freedom II: Technics and Will Concerning Lost Freedom III: To Accept Lecture 7: On Leisure Unemployment and Interface On the Suffix "-matic" On the Prefix "Tele-" Pathos Epilogue: Flusser's Planet -- Aaron Jaffe and Michael F. Miller Notes.