[...] 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
="lsts lst1">•for ="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: endlessly creative and ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic and not constitutive of truth
the rise of psychological explanation within ="trms">epistemology
="ppl">Kant saw perception crowding in upon the soul
for Külpe attention was the very condition of thinking, consciousness not in the mercy of external impressions
the importance of attention to the conception of subjective time in ="ppl">Augustine and ="ppl">Husserl
(curiosity t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered by) ="trms">wonder for ="ppl">Descartes
in 18th century='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-‘unified’ operation of mental life
="prgrph">-force of a sensation
="prgrph">-an effect of an event external to the subject
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
in 19th century, attention='lgc'>: an essential but fragile im="trms">position of coherence and clarity ="trms">onto the dispersed content of consciousness
running in the park, a motif of selfhood, of individual freedom, finality of the possibility of soul from the enduring experience of active, willed effort in ="trms">relation to the body
='lgc'>==> moi='lgc'>: a re="trms">pository of self-initiated (mental physical) activity and free will
="prgrph">-running in park/city='lgc'>: a ="trms">priori believe in the self
="prgrph">-your experience is yours
="lsts lst1">•attention
="lsts lst1">•judgement
="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory
="lsts lst1">•perception
="lsts lst1">•mediation
apperception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature of intuition ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a mobile and dynamic) conception of will ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> motor activity
19th century='lgc'>:
attention='lgc'> = will
character='lgc'> = unity
attention ='lgc'>==> mind ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{attention is plainly the essential condition of the formation and development of mind='lgc'>}, ="trms">systematic acquirement of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, for the control of passions and emotions
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> powerful accounts of the ="trms">nature of human subjectivity
practical or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">world of objects (the berlin ="trms">naturkunde museum)
attention became part of the ="trms">dense ="trms">network of institutional discourses/practices around which “the truth of perception was organised and structured”
not part of a “regime of power” rather part of a space in which new conditions of subjectivity were ="trms">articulated
19th century reconceptualization of attention='lgc'>: inevitable fragmentation of a visual field, an activity of ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion, of rendering parts of a perceptual field unperceived ='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1. attention as expression of the conscious will of an autonomous subject, as free choice, part of that subject's self-constituting freedom
="lstsrd">2. attention as a function of biologically determined instinct, shaped our lived ="trms">relation to environment
="lstsrd">3. attentive subject could be produced and managed through the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and control of external procedures of stimulation='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies of attraction ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> formative component of a ="trms">modernized mass visual culture (in the West)='lgc'>: strategies of engaging an attentive ="trms">spectator='lgc'>: comedians smirking at the camera, ="trms">gesturing conjurers in magic film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a cinema that displays its visibility, rupturing a self-enclosed ="trms">fictional ="trms">world for a chance to solicit the attention of the ="trms">spectator; Gunning 1990='lgc'>]
="ppl">Hegel's understanding of attention as “the beginning of education”
(rationalizing possibilities of) psychometrics
a site of quantification
='lgc'>==> subjective operations of repression and anesthetization ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Freud
the model of an attentive human observer
compatible with ="trms">technical conditions, insignificant “="trms">interior” faculty, a set of effects that could be ="trms">measured externally
(="trms">technological transformation of physiology and psychology in the 19th century, developme[...]