Changing the question ‘free from what?’ into ‘free for what?’; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations like a basso continuo. This is what we are like, those of us who are nomads, who come out of the collapse of a settled way of life.

Vilém Flusser, from On the Freedom of the Migrant: Objections to Nationalism, 1994  

See Also:  Vilém Flusser on History, Science & the Photograph

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