====== Edmund Husserl ======

Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology was of interest
to Vilém Flusser primarily because of
the idea of intentionality (//Gerichtetheit// [directedness])
as a projective relationship between
the subject and “things themselves,” as well as
the concept of the //epoché//, meaning a “bracketing”
or “suspension of judgment” of all of the
self’s relations to the world in order to uncover
the epistemological structures that constitute
subjective world-directedness. According to
Flusser, it is the discovery of intentionality as
the world-directedness of the stream of consciousness
that enables one to overcome the
traditional correlation of subject and object and
make the shift from subject to “project.” He interprets
the //epoché// as a tool for interrupting the
flow of language, allowing one to emerge from
the absorption of being-in-the-world (//In-der-
Welt-Sein//). Thus, for Flusser, //epoché// becomes a
cipher for death and nothing while at the same
time creating the possibility of translation
(//Über-Setzen//) into another language – that is,
into another ontological (world) structure. \\ 

As a consequence, however, Husserl’s persistently
eidetic and prelinguistic concept of experience
prevented Flusser from using the //epoché//
to the benefit of the relativity of multilinguality,
and thus of the game of dialogue. Husserl, faced
with the “crisis of the lifeworld” he had so aptly
noted – a crisis which, for Flusser, arises primarily
in the wake of the fundamental media-induced
transformation of worldly relations brought about
by telematics – sought refuge in the disengagement
of a transcendental ego meditating on its
//cogitationes//, rather than (in the best Jewish tradition)
creatively and dialogically devising new
hypotheses. 

//Original article by Matthias Kroß  in [[flusseriana|Flusseriana]]

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