Vilém Flusser and his ecology of communication still remain unknown. The Brazilian-natural Jewish Czech philosopher and essayist went to Brazil in 1940 to flee from Nazism. In Brazil he spent 32 years of confrontation and engagement. His communicology is profoundly marked by his experience in Brazil. We will point out seven key ideas of his communicational thought: religiousness as a metaphor for sense of reality; consumption and nulodimensão ('null dimension'); the Escalade of Abstraction; the three great catastrophes; the concept of Employee; the product of media - hypnogenous individuals; the concept of Subject. Flusserian communicology is: nomad, mixed, multicultural, and anthropophagic. It is urgent that his instigating and critical thought be revisited in the analysis of mediatic society.
Vilém Flusser; Ecology of Communication; Escalation of abstraction; Employee; Subject
