{"id":970,"date":"2016-10-09T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-11-28T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:40:07","slug":"habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Flusser and Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flusser uses the word &#8220;habit&#8221; [Gewohnheit] almost exclusively to mean something that is not conscious, something that in fact obscures or inhibits conscious reflection. \u00a0He frequently referred to habits as &#8220;veils,&#8221; obscuring possibilities of thinking freshly. \u00a0He also described the responsibility of an art critic (and the designation is probably broad, applying to those who make considered aesthetic judgements of any kind) as essentially a matter of breaking habits, patterns of thinking&#8211;that reliably that reliably resist anything new.<\/p>\n<p>He does not mention the idea of habit in connection with pipe-smoking, however: this he describes in terms of ritual.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/flusser.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/flusser.jpg\" alt=\"The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is there any relationship between ritual and habit?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flusser uses the word &#8220;habit&#8221; [Gewohnheit] almost exclusively to mean something that is not conscious, something that in fact obscures or inhibits conscious reflection. \u00a0He frequently referred to habits as &#8220;veils,&#8221; obscuring possibilities of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,220,210],"tags":[7,159,146],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flusser","category-habit","category-ritual","tag-flusser","tag-habit","tag-phenomenology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}