Flusser held this lecture at the Budapest Kunsthalle in 1990. He reflects on the Romanian Revolution through his own theories on technical images and their power, technical revolutions and the political effects of media, concluding that "the real experience is in the image, what happened behind the image is no use to us. Political reasoning is no longer valid. There is no reality behind the image. There are realities in the image. What is now happening in Romania cannot be history, it is something else. Political reasoning does not apply to it. It is the result of magic. It is a sort of technical voodoo. How can we judge it if we do not have the criteria for it? We do not have a philosophy of post-history. We do not yet have a philosophy of an image in power."

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