{"id":1308,"date":"2018-05-29T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:22:29","slug":"the-protreptic-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Reading Flusser"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article<\/a>\u00a0“The Protreptic Writer” is now available the special issue of Flusser Studies\u00a0<\/a>on the theme Flusser as a writer. \u00a0In it, \u00a0I try to share my own experience of reading Flusser — an experience of being persuaded, taught, in a sense, praised and criticized by turns and led, in a rough circle, from question to answer. \u00a0In the article, I argue for the value of examining Flusser’s rhetorical devices, or patterns, the ways he characteristically sets about persuading his reader. I’ve focussed on “The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe” as an example, and proposed that it exhibits the characteristic features of protreptic writing, “protreptic” being a term I first came across in Lambert Wiesing’s book The Philosophy of Perception<\/em> (London: Bloomsbury 2014). \u00a0It isn’t really a a genre or form — more like a positioning of the reader in a kind of tacit dialogue with the author.<\/p>\n

This approach to Flusser’s writing opens questions about the continuity of such patterns across his very diverse work, ranging from expository essays to autobiography, lecures and fiction — and letters. \u00a0it also gives a basis for comparison to other acknowledged protreptic writers, such as Plato, Aristotle or Augustine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The article\u00a0“The Protreptic Writer” is now available the special issue of Flusser Studies\u00a0on the theme Flusser as a writer. \u00a0In it, \u00a0I try to share my own experience of reading Flusser — an experience...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,214,247],"tags":[7,249,248,141],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-flusser","category-writing","tag-flusser","tag-protreptic","tag-rhetoric","tag-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","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=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}