Vilém Flusser
Short biography:
Vilém Flusser was a Czech-born philosopher and journalist who lived and worked in Brazil and later France. Flusser wrote primarily in German, Portuguese, and French on a wide range of subjects, including migration, photography, anthropology, and communication. In the decade and a half since his death, translations of Flusser's books began appearing in English. Subsequently, Flusser has been heralded as a pioneering philosopher of media studies.