{"id":55993763,"date":"2011-06-06T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kauda.posterous.com\/ever-thought-about-personal-disengagement-thr"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T15:27:46","slug":"ever-thought-about-personal-disengagement-thr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/?p=55993763","title":{"rendered":"disengagement through writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Writing fosters abstractions that disengage knowledge from the arena where human beings struggle with one another. <strong>It seperates the knower from the known<\/strong>. By keeping knowledge embedded in the human lifeworld, orality situates knowledge within a context of struggle. Proverbs and riddles are not used simply to store knowledge but to engage others in verbal and intellectual combat: utterance of one proverb or riddle challenges hearers to top it with a more apposite or a contradictory one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Writing seperates the\u00a0 knower from the known and thus sets up conditions for &#8218;objectivity&#8216;, in the sense of personal disengagement or distancing.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>[Walter J. Ong in &#8222;Orality and Literacy&#8220;, 1982]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Wer von uns kennt sie nicht, die Beziehungsgeschichten, in denen durch sms &#8222;Schlu\u00df gemacht&#8220; wird. Und erst k\u00fcrzlich erz\u00e4hlte mir jemand, dass ihre Freundin heikle Gespr\u00e4che am liebsten per sms oder skype f\u00fchrt, im Austausch von Angesicht zu Angesicht dagegen sehr stumm ist, was den Partner wiederum nahe an den Wahnsinn treibt. Dieses m\u00fcndliche Schweigen und gleichzeitig schriftliche Sprechen kann nat\u00fcrlich viele Gr\u00fcnde haben&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ich frage mich jedenfalls, ob die Schriftlichkeit neben einer vergr\u00f6\u00dferten zwischenmenschlichen Distanz, die Ong beschreibt, und die ja zuweilen auch sehr erw\u00fcnscht sein kann, nicht auch den Schein erh\u00f6hter Objektivit\u00e4t oder sogar Kompetenz erweckt und damit zur Selbstt\u00e4uschung einl\u00e4dt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Writing fosters abstractions that disengage knowledge from the arena where human beings struggle with one another. It seperates the knower from the known. By keeping knowledge embedded in the human lifeworld, orality situates knowledge within a c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[102,45],"class_list":["post-55993763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-jahrhundert","category-zitate","tag-ong","tag-schrift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55993763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55993763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55993763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175518637,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55993763\/revisions\/175518637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55993763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55993763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posterous.quaerito.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55993763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}