My delight about the publication of “A Cartogram of Vilém Flusser’s Nomadism” in Flusser Studies 40 is twofold: (1) I am honoured to publish in the twentieth anniversary issue of this wonderful journal, (2) the contribution offers the opportunity to finally publish widely the cartogram “The nomadic and the supporter networks of Vilém Flusser”, which the wonderful designer and researcher Clemens Jahn and myself had developed in 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition “Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser and the Arts” at ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The cartogram was prominently shown in the exhibition as a large-scale print as well as smaller prints for the visitors to take home. The cartogram is not only a product of the collaboration between Clemens and me; the project also included many other collaborators with whom I have worked in order to update and research Flusser’s biography (a work that was eventually published as appendix in “Flusseriana – An Intellectual Toolbox”, ed. S. Zielinski, P. Weibel, D. Irrgang (Univocal/Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2015)). My gratitude – more precisely articulated in the contribution’s accompanying introduction – belongs to them, as well as to the editors of Flusser Studies for providing us with the opportunity to make the cartogram available to a wider readership.
Daniel Irrgang (with Clemens Jahn), “A Cartogram of Vilém Flusser’s Nomadism.” Flusser Studies 40 (2025): Special Twentieth Anniversary Issue.
