Routine

Routines are a means for the self-stabilization of orientation and its main foothold. When everything runs as usual, familiarity and confidence develop as the basic stability one relies on. A routine is exactly this confident mastery of well-established orientation processes. Everywhere in human orientation, routines develop. These can be bodily routines, routines of actions and work as well as daily and weekly procedures, routines of speaking (chap. 10.4), moral routines (chap. 14.3 [1]), or even highly controlled social routines, such as pedagogical, workout, economic, bureaucratic, judicial, political, religious, artistic, and scientific routines. Routines become fairly natural over time: one does not feel them positively, but one only becomes aware of them if they are interrupted or fail (chap. 8.2). Then routines for replacing routines or reorientation routines may develop (chap. 8.3). While media render surprises an everyday routine (chap. 12.3), art may irritate and thus remove an orientation from its routines of perception, behavior, action, and interpretation (chap. 13.2).

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Reinhard Mueller