Vilem
Flusser. The master of writing about writing. The activity of writing as a duty
of one's writer. To make writing a habit, but what is habit? There are many
philosophical questions that surround the concept of habit, or is it an action?
Why the concept has always a relation with an object, can habit be an object?
What idea is it serving to make it a habit, so, if one surrenders to habits
then work becomes mechanic, a machine, and as the worker of the machine you
just need to keep the machine going, to take care of the machine, but then,
what elements do the machine that writes on behalf of the writer has to take care
of? Well, first you have the mind, you have to take care of the mind of the
writer, but it can also be said that this will be only an aesthetic
consideration because how many great writings have been produced by people who
already had lost their mind, but the habit trascends the mind then, as you can
see, because how can still be possible to produce such great texts if the mind
of the writer is already somewhere else? the habit is what archives all the
elements necesarily to keep going, like a spirit. The creation of the spirit is
then material because it takes work to objectify it in the form of habit, and
an everlasting one has the elements of a brute stone that has been polished
into its maximum expression of value.
