Conversazioni sull’uomo nuovo. Flusser e il dialogo con i pensatori italiani

Starting from a reflection on the concept of conversation, the article reconsiders the role of Flusser’s relationships with some Italian thinkers he met before, during and after his stay in Merano, both from a biographical and a theoretical standpoint. The analysis of his correspondence with Ernesto Grassi, Luigi Bagolini, Bernardo Bagolini and Angelo Schwarz allows us to recognize a turning point in his thought: the development of an anthropology of communication, based on the concept of homo novus. This anthropology of post-history can be conceived as the common background to his reflections on imagination, dialogue, gestures and codes.