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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'>--> ="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, development of electrophysiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultural ="trms">history of electricity)
behaviour with a ="trms">historical structure='lgc'>: a behaviour ="trms">articulated in terms of ="trms">socially determined norms and is part of the formation of a ="trms">modern ="trms">technological milieu
1879, Wundt's psychology laboratory in Leipzig, one of the practical and discursive spaces within ="trms">modernity in which human beings “problematized what they are.” ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault/
(Wundt's account defined attention ='lgc'>[= will='lgc'>] as one of the highest ="trms">integrative functions ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='at'>#="trms">integrative in ="ppl">Sennett='lgc'>], its essential role in producing an effective unity of consciousness)
part of the cultural logic of capitalism ="trms">demands that we accept as ="trms">natural switching our attention rapidly from one thing to another ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (capitalism as a) regime of reciprocal attentiveness and distraction
conceptualizer of a new economic and ="trms">social space based on the quantification and distribution of energy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Wener von Siemens
="lsts lst1">•Lord Kelvin='lgc'>: globalization of telegraphic ="trms">communication and subsequently in the commodification and ="trms">marketing of electric power (in England) ='lgc'>[telegraph='lgc'>: a ="trms">world of anonymous, decontextualized information; moved ="trms">history into the background and amplified the instant and ="trms">simultaneous ="trms">present/person='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Edison='lgc'>: ="trms">transition to centralised corporate capitalism (in late 19th century)='lgc'>: his role in the emergence of a new ="trms">system of quantification and distribution, a ="trms">system for trans="trms">mission and reception as abstract processes, ways in which a space of ="trms">consumption and circulation could be dynamized/activated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social field of individual subjects could be arranged into increasingly separate and specialized units (of ="trms">consumption)
“Edison was a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic conceptualizer and determined solver of the problems as="trms">sociated with the growth of ="trms">systems” (="ppl">="ppl">Crary > Hughes)
Edison is paradigmatic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the indistinction between information and visual images, and the making of quantifiable and abstract flow into the object of attentive ="trms">consumption. his grasp of some of the ="trms">systemic features of capitalism (in 1880s and 1890s) underscores the abstract ="trms">nature of the products he “invented”. his work is inseparable from the continual manufacturer of new needs and the consequent restructuring of the ="trms">network of ="trms">relations in which such products would be ="trms">consumed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other participants in the same ="trms">historical project of perpetual rationalization and ="trms">modernization='lgc'>: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, etc.
(kinetoscope and phonograph logic='lgc'>:) the structuring of perceptual experience in terms of a solitary rather than a collective subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> today's computer screen as the primary vehicle for the distribution and ="trms">consumption (of electronic commodities)
(late 20th century) management of attention ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- capacity of an observer to adjust to continual repatterning of the ways in which a sensory ="trms">world can be ="trms">consumed
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
ADD
dubious classification of an attentive deficit disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> durability of attention (posed as ='lgc'>[implicitly='lgc'>] ="trms">natural function) as a normative ="trms">category of institutional power
="prgrph">-="trms">social construction of illness
="prgrph">-now ADD is not linked to any weakness of the will
="prgrph">-in adults='lgc'>: any economic shortcoming or ="trms">social insecurity is now understandable in terms of a fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to apply oneself attentively to the ideologically determined standards of performance and “achievement”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a culture that is so relentlessly founded on a short attention span, on the logic of the nonsequitur, on perceptual overload, on the ="trms">generalized ethic of “getting ahead,” on the celebration of aggressiveness, (="ppl">="ppl">Crary poses that it is nonsensical to pathologize attention in this culture, a double bind, in which the individual is caught between subjective dislocations of ="trms">modernization and imperative for institutional discipline and productivity)
(Miller ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana) ...the unconscious as part of a ="trms">system in which ‘automatic’ behaviour was reciprocally ="trms">intertwined with the changing needs of conscious activity, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding attention. in contrast to the custodial ="ppl">Freudian ="trms">interpretation, many 19th century psychologists saw the unconscious as “actively generating the processes which are ="trms">integral to ="trms">memory, perception, and behaviour. its contents are inaccessible not, as in psychoanalytic theory, because they are held in strenuously preventive detention but, more ="trms">interestingly, because the effective implementation of cognition and conduct does not actually require comprehensive awareness.
="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>: a certain kind of reactive attention was believed to be an essential part of human biology, ="trms">systematic ="trms">response to novel stimuli (visual, olfactory, or auditory)
="prgrph">-an attentive observer might appear motionless
="prgrph">-an ideo-motor ="trms">network of forces ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which immobilizes
(the structural psychology of) as="trms">sociationism (theories of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)
institutional discourse
="trms">techniques of the subject
attention (='lgc'>~= will) ='lgc'>~/= consciousness
(noncoincidence of attention with consciousness)
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">modern shift to semantic and ="trms">semiotic frameworks of analysis
(from ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hermeneutics ='lgc'>: ="ppl">Mallarme, ="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Peirce, ="ppl">Wittgenstein, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of how a subject is provisionally constructed through ="trms">language and other ="trms">systems of ="trms">social meaning and value ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> termination of various analysis of consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemological crisis
observer (once understood in terms of the essential subjectivity of vision) ='lgc'>==> attention became constitutive (and destabilizing) component of perception
unmediated givenness of sense ="trms">data ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognition
="trms">community of ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>: a shifting and ="trms">intervening space of ="trms">socially ="trms">articulated psychological functions, institutional imperative, and a wide range of ="trms">techniques, practices, and discourses relating to the perceptual experience of a subject in time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forms of exteriority in ="trms">modernity's account of perception
eschatological dream of 19th century ='lgc'>: “to make this knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of man exist so that man could be liberated by it from his alienation, liberated from all the determinations of which he was not the master” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one made of man an object of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge so that man could become subject of his own liberty and of his own existence
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Foucault
exercise of a sovereign and attentive will ='lgc'>[we see this in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> claiming subject's self-possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conscious organizer of that perceptible ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> master
(="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>:) “i am free” ='lgc'>==> “he must obey” ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the inward certainty that obedience will be rendered ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ ='strcls'>*ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively='lgc'>: (the unconditional evaluation that) ‘this and nothing else is necessary now’
co-="trms">presence of the ="trms">world (can never be guaranteed ='lgc'>[by ="trms">scientific psychology='lgc'>])
='lgc'><== attentiveness is continuous with distraction, reverie, dis="trms">sociation, trance,
='at'>@="nms">apass, work on attention is so ="trms">interesting because it is part of the ="trms">history of modality of contemplation about processes and activities of the body
the neo-="ppl">Kantian legacy of a dis="trms">interested ="trms">aesthetic perception ='lgc'>--desire='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to escape bodily time (and its vagaries)
="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Hume's) artist='lgc'>: someone in whom “="trms">nature has forgotten to attach their faculty for perception to their faculty for action” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- sounds familiar='qstn'>? “free” artistic perception)
="lsts lst1">•(for Roger Fry='lgc'>:) “="trms">imaginative life” is about contemplation disconnected from the possibility of action (='lgc'>=/= instinctive reactions to sensible objects and their accompanying emotions ='lgc'>~= ="trms">animal)='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a bad ="trms">fable
="trms">modernist art='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*timeless perception='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[formal conditions of the possibility of vision, pure form operates as a principle of structure, Krauss outlines how temporality is ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= mundane or quotidian forms of seeing or ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening ='lgc'>[the object bounded by its c="trms">ontours, spurred/hated by ="trms">modernism='lgc'>]
whenever we try to look at or ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to one thing for too long the attention (containing within itself the conditions for its own dis="trms">integration) inevitably reaches a threshold at which it breaks down='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a game i used to play as a ="trms">child, playing with attention and distraction, mutating myself into a state of trance or autohypnosis, absorbed, diverted, nebulous ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">socially adaptive subject='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*perceptual identity='strcls'>* (of its object) begins to deteriorate (& paralysis of will='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[_='thdf'>that is why in ="trms">spectacle visual regimes the duration of perception must be regulated in short ="trms">intervals='lgc'>]
attention is thermodynamic ='lgc'>: a given force could assume more than ine form
partial sleep ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abnormal fixation
(i am cautious at every turn to capture my own) ='strcls'>*experience of distraction='strcls'>* is part of ="nms">ajayeb studies. because it has to do with modes of attention and its persian ="trms">history
perception is a dream
(an account of) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a process of fragmentation and destruction in which pre="trms">modern forms of wholeness and ="trms">integrity were irretrievably broken up or degraded through ="trms">technological, ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban, and economic reorganization
='lgc'>==> a “decay” in the capacity for perception ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to be careful in working for ="nms">ajayeb not to romanticize (elitist and regressive fantasy of ="trms">communal ="trms">relations in) pre="trms">modern modalities of looking/="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening as richer, deeper, or more valuable ='lgc'>:
="trms">modern ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban life as “swift and continuous shift of external and ="trms">internal stimuli” ='lgc'>=/= pre="trms">modern's “slower, more habitual, more smoothly flowing rhythm of the sensory-mental phase"='lgc'>]
(sensory mental schema)
understanding of distraction within a larger deterioration of experience
="prgrph">-distraction (not as a product of decay or ="trms">anthropy, rather) as a mean to overcome bankruptcy of bourgeois ="trms">aesthetic (late 19th century)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Benjamin='lgc'>: absorbed contemplation purified of the ="trms">excess stimuli of ="trms">modernity
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>: distraction as regression='lgc'>: perception that is “arrested in the infantile ="trms">stage” ='lgc'>=/= “deep concentration”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Rilke='lgc'>: authentic attention as precious and rare survival of the lost ideal of artistic absorption in work now exiled to the margins of mechanized and ="trms">routinized ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•Rodin='lgc'>: gazing of the handworker
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “reception in a state of distraction”, (='lgc'><== absorption is psychologically grounded perception) ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Crary arguing that attention and distraction ceaselessly flowing into one another on the same continuum (of ="trms">social field)
='lgc'>[tales of understanding='lgc'>]-='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•what are the cognites of ‘contemplation’ (in german or ="trms">farsi)='qstn'>?
the theological resonances of this latinate word ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contemplation='lgc'>: viewing/considering with continued attention; going into the temple, into the sphere of the holy, into the deep roots of things, into their creative ground
(to oppose) contemporary modes of distraction
="trms">modern forms of ="trms">interiority, absorption, psychic isolation
Riegl's dream of a ="trms">world in which art would be inseparable from an ="trms">imaginary democratic harmony of individual and ="trms">community (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">harem)
collective attention (central attentive mass audience, 1900) ='lgc'>: cinema
rational attention='lgc'>: attention linked to thought, one's telescope on object
(for ="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>:) attention='lgc'>: possibility of an absorption ='lgc'>==> forgetting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life-affirmative ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “focusing on the ="trms">present moment”
final virtue of ="trms">modern man='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">presence of mind='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>='lgc'>--> necessary part of the (="trms">cosmopolitan) individual's functioning within a ="trms">modern ="trms">world of economic facts and qualities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready at ="trms">response to the machine, af="trms">finity with the ="trms">technical, athletic political (='at'>#="trms">integration tale)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the (="trms">serious) ="trms">modern soul is directed towards the news, focusing on the ="trms">present, to employ the moment (='at'>#="trms">presentism ='at'>#="trms">past-studies)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fable of “to be at the ="trms">present moment”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fable of “to adapt yourself”
perceptual acceleration of ="trms">modernized ="trms">social field (work ='lgc'>+ leisure) ='lgc'>==> new ='strcls'>*="trms">cosmopolitan individual='strcls'>* (who receives signals from many fars and nears, ="trms">="trms">equipped to ‘attend’ to messages and participate in their circulation ☆ ='at'>#face="trms">book='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diffuse ="trms">anxiety of the other-directed person ='lgc'>: gyroscope ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> radar)
="ppl">Arendt='lgc'>:
="trms">modernity='lgc'>: fabricating rendered meaningless ='lgc'>=/= contemplation='lgc'>: beholding the truth
‘life='lgc'> = being’ ='lgc'>==> ‘contemplation='lgc'> = truth’
="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> characterization of ="trms">Greek's primordial self-disclosing look ='lgc'>==> makes ="trms">presence possible ='lgc'>+ glaring predatory look ='lgc'>--of='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern subjects='lgc'> = objects of conquest
dystopian ="trms">story='lgc'>: a promising outburst (always of human) activity ='lgc'>[such as ="trms">science or exploration or artificial intelligence, etc.='lgc'>] that leads in the most deadlines sterile passivity ='lgc'>[such as alien predation, industrialisation of mind, global contamination, etc.='lgc'>]
(theatricalization of ="trms">scientific mistake in the Handmaid TV series='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific human progress failing ='lgc'>==> abolishing the distinction between private and public consciousness ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- optics of ="trms">narcissistic scepticism ='lgc'><== psychological shock of the temporality of process)
19th century='lgc'>: ="ppl">Schopenhauer's early grasp of the link between attention and perceptual dis="trms">integration
(for ="ppl">Schopenhauer='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[cognitive chaos of='lgc'>] cultural ="trms">modernity='lgc'>:) temporality ='lgc'>==> subjective anguish
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
the timing of intellect
(how come usually intellect does not have time='qstn'>? leaps out of time)
(chaotic successiveness of) perceptions are rendered intellectually coherent ='lgc'>--(="ppl">Schopenhauer)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (unmotivated movement of the) will holds them together ='lgc'>~= body='lgc'>: will's most immediate objectified form
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==> (="trms">modernism's) looking='lgc'>: a purified perception suspended from time and the body's economy
telegram, Face="trms">book
extremely heterogeneous mixture of fragments of re="trms">presentations of every kind constantly crossing one another
="prgrph">-ceaseless pulsing and animations of the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporality of the bodies in ="nms">Tehran
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of subjective reflection (in a ="ppl">Cartesian sense) ='and'>& as="trms">sociation of discrete elements
distraction ='lgc'><='lgc'>--sug="trms">gesting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublimation
(from ="ppl">Descartes to ="ppl">Kant) consciousness/cogito='lgc'> = ground of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and certitude (= self-="trms">present subject) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Schopenhauer recognizing) ending the un="trms">questioned foundational ="trms">priority of consciousness ='lgc'>==> attention (emerges as a problem)
broken attention
(idea for video documentation='lgc'>: a lagging mirror attached in front of the camera's lenses)
(a ="trms">fable)
looking out the window
perceive a landscape
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