[...] division of labor in ="trms">interior space) ='lgc'>[this is not merely architectural, it is also something about the clothing people wore='lgc'>: wearing ="trms">different clothes in family or in the realm of str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers. houses became warmer='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Simmel's) “="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban subjectivity”='lgc'>: street physical over-stimulation ='lgc'>==> wearing a mask, you show nothing to people, you are not there. and behind this mask there is the feelings you are having, and these sensations behind the mask are your subjectivity.
it is a reaction to being exposed to ="trms">difference and complexity
the subject is divided='lgc'>: neutral on the outside / stimulated in the inside

(i don't want to become a camera)
observe (without ="trms">interacting)
observational cruising
='lgc'>[the standard account:='lgc'>] ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= reflexive detachment, reflexive withdraw

="trms">social media and exteriority

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="ppl">Sennett, “3rd ="trms">world” SPeCo62Mz2Q ='lgc'>: condition in which centralized space or distributed ="trms">communication ="trms">networks are missing
="prgrph">-a public space that is officially organized
='strcls'>*parks='lgc'>: open space that are reserved for the public='lgc'>: “where informal economy wants to be but is banned”

='strcls'>*public space='lgc'>: (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Selma on st.open project)
(21st century) ="trms">modern thought ='lgc'><-- ='strcls'>*two traditions of thinking about public realm='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- as a dialogical condition (of exchange, of political engagement) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Arendt ='and'>& ="ppl">Habermas; ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>{a ="trms">communicative im="trms">material space='lgc'>} ='lgc'>: “more talk ='lgc'>==> more agreement, common understanding” ='lgc'>---='lgc'>[dialogic ='and'>& im="trms">material='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">2- as a space of ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (goes back to 19th century) ="ppl">Baudelaire's ‘individual passers-by’ watching something on the ="trms">fold (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='lgc'>[old ="trms">Greek idea of ="trms">spectacle:='lgc'>] “un="trms">folding of ="trms">narrative.” a ='thdf'>bad idea of ‘how people should be physically in space’ for example, a landscape architect that creates a scenography in a park ='lgc'>==> a witness in a s="trms">cene, watching as ="trms">spectator from out of a ="trms">situated identity in the ="trms">world), (not so new) ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban sensibility and ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban subject ="trms">matter; criticized by ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord; ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>{a theater with performers and ="trms">spectators, a very physical understanding of public space, ='lgc'>---='lgc'>[dramatic ='and'>& ="trms">material='lgc'>]='lgc'>}

="lstsrd">3- in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">integrative
many of the ="trms">differences (culture, class, ="trms">religion, etc) that cities contain can't be reconciled ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> how can I talk to you and not pressing a point of ="trms">integration, rather in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion='qstn'>? (where people feel provoked to ="trms">integrate, ="trms">integrieren, an inherently passive condition)
="prgrph">-always more parallel activities that don't form a ="trms">spectacle only but are also productive
='lgc'>---='lgc'>[in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ='and'>& ="trms">synchronous='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***(in the public realm='lgc'>:) ="trms">integration ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ="trms">spectacle

="large lg1" stl="font-size:132%"> public spaces must be much smaller ='lgc'>=/= gigantism of dramatized power of the politics in large scale public places
small ='lgc'>==> intensity (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> this i learned from Julia as well, create small spaces to show our art-works to each other, the intensity of that moment generative of desire)


(most public spaces have been designed by powers that want to use the very size of the public space as way to ='strcls'>*dramatizing their own power='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•public space inspired by power
="lsts lst1">•public space inspired by wealth
="lsts lst1">•




the “stop” as an architectural project itself (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Selma)
we argue, in our project st.open, that there should be many activities going on at once in public space, that public space should be ="trms">synchronous, productive as well as ="trms">spectacular

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='strcls'>*the way we concentrate has a deeply ="trms">historical character='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Crary

looking at opera or television or driving,
we are in a dimension of contemporary experience that requires that we effectively cancel out or ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from consciousness much of our immediate environment

="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>: how western ="trms">modernity since the 19th century has ="trms">demanded that individuals define and shape themselves in terms of a capacity for “paying attention”='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> disengagement from a broader field of attraction for the sake of isolating or focusing on a reduced number of stimuli

='lgc'>{ our lives='lgc'> = disconnected patchwork of stats ='lgc'>}='lgc'><== ="trms">dense and powerful remaking of human subjectivity in the West over the last 150 years

the so-called crisis of subject dis="trms">integration is diagnosed as a deficiency of “attention”

attentive norms and practices ='lgc'>==> ="trms">modern distraction


imperative of concentrated attentiveness within the disciplinary organization of labor, education, and mass ="trms">consumption
='lgc'>+
ideal of sustained attentiveness as a constitutive element of a creative and free subjectivity

a cultivated individual gazing (='lgc'>~ ="frds scrmbld">Jassem) on a great work of art or ="trms">nature
='lgc'>+
a factory worker concentrating on the performance of some repetitive task

='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> institutional constructions of a productive and manageable subjectivity ='lgc'>+ purified ="trms">aesthetic perception
='lgc'>["='lgc'>+” ='lgc'>: inseparability='lgc'>]

='lgc'>==> experience of subjective autonomy (for example in ="frds scrmbld">Jassem)
='lgc'>+ ambivalent limits and fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures of an attentive individual

19th century emergence of new ="trms">technological forms of ="trms">spectacle and recording




...set of terms and ="trms">positions that cannot be construed simply as ="trms">questions of opacity

vision is not an autonomous and self-justifying problem

(we have to rework the) forces of specialization and separation that allowed ='thdf'>the notion of visuality to become the intellectually available concept that it is today
(we should do that with all our ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready at hand concepts)

what is the genealogy of attention in Persian subjectivity='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">embodied subject is both the location of operations of power and the potential for resistance
="lsts lst1">•vision is only one part of a body capable of evading institutional capture

="trms">social economic re="trms">presentational shifts and practices
visual/auditory culture

...richer and more ="trms">historically determined notions of “="trms">embodiment”

="trms">spectator culture is not founded on the necessity of making a subject ‘see’ (="ppl">="ppl">Crary)
rather, individuals are isolated, separated, and inhabit time as disempowered.
counter-forms of attention are constituted as other temporalities and states (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> my ="trms">lectures, reverie)

for ="ppl">="ppl">Crary, “perception”='lgc'>: a way of indicating a subject definable in terms of more than the single-sense modality of sight

="lsts lst1">•fundamental absence at the heart of seeing
="lsts lst1">•impossibility of the perception of ="trms">presence
="lsts lst1">•impossibility of an unmediated visual access to a plentitude of being
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">historical ob="trms">literation of the possibility of thinking ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">presence in perception

='strcls'>*attention='lgc'>: simulation of ="trms">presence, a ="trms">pragmatic substitute in the face of its impossibility

atemporal ="trms">nature of perception

='qstn'>? direct perceptual access to self-presdenceex

(newly) designated “pathologies” of attention and creative, intensive states of deep absorption and daydreaming

(subjective conception of vision ='lgc'>==>) ='strcls'>*attention='lgc'>: the means by which an individual observer can transcend those subjective limitations and make perception ‘its own’ ='lgc'>[&='lgc'>] the means by which a perceiver becomes open to control and annexation by external ="trms">agencies='strcls'>***

="trms">interrelated problem of perception and ="trms">modernization

="ppl">="ppl">Crary's development of the issue of attention is to ="trms">question the relevance of isolating an ="trms">aesthetically determined contemplation or absorption

general problem of perceptual synthesis and dis="trms">integrative possibilities of attention

optical verisimilitude

attention ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> tension ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> possibly of a fixation, of holding something in ="trms">wonder or contemplation, in which the attentive subject is both immobile and ungrounded

how can something o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate in its op="trms">posite='qstn'>?
="ppl">Nietzsche

sudden emergence of model of subjective vision (in the 19th century)

complex and ="trms">contingent physiological makeup of the observer ='lgc'>==> vision is rendered faulty, even arbitrary

reality maintenance

aftershocks of apperception

fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of a capacity for synthesis of conscious thought (named dis="trms">sociation) became linked in the 19th century with pathological psychosis
this label (of pathological dis="trms">integration) was evidence of a shift in the ="trms">relation of the subject to a visual field
='strcls'>*synthesis
="lsts lst1">•for ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: bind with creative forces of ="trms">memory
="lsts lst1">•for Dilthey='lgc'>: creative forms of fusion ="trms">specific to human ="trms">imagination
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