Reading for Pleasure
I read somewhere recently (irresponsible, irresistible phrase!) that the proportion of us who read for pleasure is dropping, and has been for some time. The implication was that most of us, most of the...
Category: habit
An Abecedarium
The current issue of Flusser Studies marks the twentieth year this small, online journal has been publishing research and commentary on the life and work of Vilém Flusser (1920 – 1991). I’ve been a...
Fear of Facebook
Does anyone else find that once you have had to change something about your habits, patterns, rituals — whatever you want to call them — a lot of others come up for questioning? I like...
The Rhythm of Writing
“His [Flusser’s] writing method evolved in the era of the portable manual typewriter, and he never changed it thereafter, despite the explosion of information technology through which he was to live and about which...
Flusser and Habits
Flusser uses the word “habit” [Gewohnheit] almost exclusively to mean something that is not conscious, something that in fact obscures or inhibits conscious reflection. He frequently referred to habits as “veils,” obscuring possibilities of...