{"id":104,"date":"2011-07-07T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T10:57:21","slug":"apparatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"apparatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flusser&#8217;s term <em>Apparat<\/em>, which can only be\u00a0<em>apparatus <\/em>in English, has a pivotal position in his thinking about media. The word is not perfect, because it sounds like a machine. \u00a0But it refers to a <em>mesh<\/em> between human beings and machines, or better, to an integration of human beings with communication technologies that tend to usurp human decision-making. To the extent the apparatus automates our thinking, it causes us to \u00a0lose\u00a0our capacity for dialogue (the field of all things new, creative). The \u00a0apparatus promises to facilitate a creative, fully human society, but at the same time threatens to paralyse it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to underestimate the subtlety and pervasiveness of the enemy, though. \u00a0It&#8217;s almost as though the battle against the apparatus must be waged in one&#8217;s own consciousness &#8212; say, between a person and her camera, or computer, or cell &#8216;phone. \u00a0The philosopher Dieter Mersch once helpfully suggested that the apparatus is felt not as any assertive force or visible enemy, but as a gentle tug &#8212; a kind of invitation to be a bit lazy, to &#8220;go with the flow,&#8221; to let decisions be made for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flusser&#8217;s term Apparat, which can only be\u00a0apparatus in English, has a pivotal position in his thinking about media. The word is not perfect, because it sounds like a machine. \u00a0But it refers to a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[28,13,7],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functionary","tag-apparat","tag-apparatus","tag-flusser"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}