[...] /> ="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, 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'>='lgc'>~= will) ='lgc'>='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'>='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'>='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
light of consciousness
distribute over the landscape
then i try
to apprehend a single tree branch
the consciousness that the rest of the landscape was deployed then fades
diminishes into as="trms">sociational debris
into disappearance of re="trms">presentations

real nexus of psychic life
permeated colored enlivened feelings
distribution of feelings
the gradual un="trms">folding
efforts of attention
are forms of volitional activity
impulsive energy to individual imagery
permit them to fade away
therefore, the tree branch, the window, is a process

Dilthey


in ="ppl">Peirce='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]attention='lgc'> = anti-optical act of selection ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (in traditional ="trms">epistemological thought) singling out a contemplative object='lgc'>], “the power by which thought at one time is connected with and made to relate to thought at another time”
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*firstness='lgc'>: self-immediacy, absolute ="trms">presence (before synthesis and ="trms">differentiation) ='lgc'>~ nonreferenciality (='lgc'>=/= perception, attention ="trms">consumed/constituted in time ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= continuous quantity='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*secondness)


using a more act-oriented term “thought” instead of “consciousness”

dis="trms">sociation
anaesthesia
="trms">hallucination
multiple selves
='lgc'>--James='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal model of mind='lgc'>: ‘stream’
(='lgc'>=/= scenic model of mind)
='lgc'>[this was part of a larger institutional field in which ="trms">scientific psychology generally was abandoning ‘elemental’ conceptions of consciousness in favour of operational or functional models='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==> observer='lgc'>: an artist confronted with the primordial chaos of sensation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (ethics of) overlapping common choices (made of autonomous subjects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can see James seeking to lessen the shock of recent works in ="trms">science and psychology for an American middle-class ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readership='lgc'>])
(William James='lgc'>:) irreducible p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of experience ='lgc'>==> (think in terms of) fluidity and immobilization



='mywrk'>my work is usually unformed and informal='lgc'>: a speaking properly in terms of irradiated strata, an aggregate


emergence of increasingly powerful ="trms">technologies and institutions that would determine and enforce ='strcls'>*externally='strcls'>* the objects of attention for mass population ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history of cinema
="lsts lst1">•disciplinary framework='lgc'>: it is the aim of the teacher to fix the attention of the pupils ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> habit of attention becomes amenable to the will of the teacher



attention was an indispensable component of the “normal” and “rational” subject of the late 19th century industrial ="trms">society, yet had a disturbing proximity to “pathological” and “irrational” effects.
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Crary

="ppl">Simondon, mold ='and'>& modulation
="ppl">Deleuze, on ="trms">fold

by the end of 19th century attention became an inadequate simulation of (an Archimedean) point of stability from which consciousness could know the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[rather='lgc'>] it opened to flux and absence (='lgc'>=/= perceptual fixity, certainty of ="trms">presence) ='lgc'>==> subject-object scattered provisional existence


(extreme model of a) ='strcls'>*="trms">technology of attention='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana ='lgc'>[spiritism, ='strcls'>*action at a distance='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> curse, ,='lgc'>]
hypnosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unsettling outlines of of a subject whose makeup could evade both intellectual and institutional mastery ='lgc'>+ precariousness and malleability of (what had been thought of as) consciousness

hypnosis adjacent to attention='qstn'>?! intense refocusing and narrowing of attention ='lgc'>+ inhibition of motor ="trms">responses

focalization='lgc'>: concentrating one's attention on some ="trms">specific object

sustained looking at a single point (i used to do as a ="trms">child) ='lgc'>==> dramatic reorganization of consciousness


="ppl">="ppl">Crary in his ="trms">book, Suspension of Perception, shows how high ="trms">science and peripheral pseudo="trms">science never had clear-cut distinctions in the 19th century. that there were a complex and shifting ="trms">relation of ="trms">mutual exchange between the “luminous” physics with a huge range of other “darker” ideas about ‘action in a distance’ enacted in spiritism
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana


hypnosis ='and'>& sug="trms">gestion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automatic processes (inferior, more instinctual, continuous with ="trms">animality), “mental decapitation” ='lgc'>=/= ration elicit patient with conscious participating will power ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Star Wars will of the weaker and less independent, powerful ="trms">natures exercise over weaker ones, jedi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strance states (of the weaker ones)='lgc'>: being ="trms">instrument of undisguised power ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deviant types of behavioural control='lgc'>]
(hypnosis still being rese="trms"nttrm="search">arched on but) ideologically could not be acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged as a constitutive part of human ="trms">sciences
='lgc'>==> (stigmata of critical ="trms">position ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali; follow it in ="ppl">Marxism='lgc'>]='lgc'>:)
volitional human action modified by external forces

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's tacit appeal to state secret, military secret ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> importance of low-level effects of sug="trms">gestion and influence in contemporary global culture (="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's ="trms">interest)
the role ‘sug="trms">gestion’ plays in a ="trms">society of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the effects of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashion
="lsts lst1">•="trms">mimesis
="lsts lst1">•mass psychology
="lsts lst1">•media-related contagions
='lgc'>+ influences of all kind ='lgc'>==> “="trms">oblige” us
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that attention can be controlled for ="trms">specific ends

(over a hundred years) underpinning institutional strategies has been the ="trms">position that ='strcls'>*human subjects have determinate psychological capacities and functions that might be susceptible to ="trms">technological management='strcls'>*

attention has been both='lgc'>: strategy of control ='and'>& locus of resistance and drift


(by the end of 20th century) the attentive subject is part of an ‘="trms">internalization’ of disciplinary imperative ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individuals are made more directly ="trms">responsible for their own efficient or profitable utilization


="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's ="trms">society of discipline
="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's ="trms">society of ="trms">spectacle

(="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's) ='strcls'>*="trms">spectacle='lgc'>: a development of a ="trms">technology of separation='strcls'>*, ='lgc'>[multiple strategies of isolation='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (capitalism's restructuring of) ="trms">society without ="trms">community
='lgc'>+
(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's) ='lgc'>[production of='lgc'>] docile bodies ='lgc'>~='lgc'>{ body='lgc'> = political force ='lgc'>}
='lgc'>+
(='lgc'><== Weber's) inner isolation of individual ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">modernity='lgc'>]

management of attention is masscultural forms has to do (less with the visual contents and much more) with a larger ='strcls'>**strategy of the individual='strcls'>** ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="trms">spectacle='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> looking at images='lgc'>]
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (construction of conditions that) individuate, immobilize, separate subjects
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==>
attention ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operation of noncoercive forms of power

(="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>:) optical/="trms">technological objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arrangement of bodies in space (='lgc'>--="trms">modernism='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques of separation)

television ='lgc'>+ personal computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti-nomadic procedures (that fix and striate) ='lgc'>==> rendering bodies controllable and useful ='lgc'>+ simulation of choices and ="trms">interactivity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Williams='lgc'>: a ="trms">technological and logic of) ='strcls'>*mobile privatization='strcls'>*

(through the assessment of the works of ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari, and now popular ="trms">narratives) the ="trms">relation between human and machine is based on ="trms">internal, ="trms">mutual ="trms">communication, and no longer on usage or action (='lgc'>~ human operator linked to a machine as an exterior object) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? companion ="trms">species='lgc'>]


irresistible imperative of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continuous effects of control

panoptic ="trms">techniques ='and'>& attentive imperatives (function reciprocally)

classical power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repression
="lsts lst1">•ideology
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">modern power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•normalization
="lsts lst1">•modulation
="lsts lst1">•modelling
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*information that bear on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">language
="lsts lst2">◦perception
="lsts lst2">◦desire
="lsts lst2">◦movement
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> by way of microassemblages
(= ='strcls'>*subjectification='strcls'>*)

="prgrph">-the shape of absentmindedness in my performances is skewed by the attentive imperative of ="trms">modern subjectification='qstn'>? something unfocused, ='strcls'>**something ="trms">folds back against itself='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=/= “processing” a stream of heterogeneous stimuli (in film, radio, television, cyberspace)
="prgrph">-my audience felt an uncomfortable sense of their own inattentiveness (in my performances of the experience of dis="trms">sociation, of temporality incompatible with capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list patterns of flow). what is they are asking me is to give a stream of heterogeneous stimuli ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****how temporality is inhabited='strcls'>****


to diffuse (="trms">societies of ="trms">spectacle) into (a single) ="trms">integrated ="trms">society of ="trms">spectacle (='lgc'>==> separate, isolated, but not introspective individuals)


(film and television in competition with) ='strcls'>*daydream='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a domain of resistance ="trms">internal to any ="trms">system of coercion ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
(='qstn'>?is capitalism's contemporary arrangement allowing/playing an) oscillation between ="trms">spectacular attentiveness and the free play of subjective absorption
='lgc'>~ info/telematic ="trms">systems simulating the possibility of drift ='lgc'>==> modes of sedentarization
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Crary asks) how creative modes of trance, inattention, daydream, and fixation can flourish in the ="trms">interstices of these circuits='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven ...amid ="trms">technological forms of boredom ='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*="trms">modern boredom='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognitive and perceptual synthesis. boredom is involved with the intensification of a sense of selfhood='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> romantic (turned inside out='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]


='strcls'>*perception without awareness='strcls'>* (vilified in art and criticism)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> automaticity='lgc'>: performance under conditions of divided attention

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Manet='lgc'>: disengagement of perception from a model of ="trms">interiority
Manet's painting discloses some of the important recon="trms">figurations of the status of the observer (that had occurred by the middle of 19th century)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> my ="ppl">Olearius video ="trms">figuratively re="trms">positions the observing subject outside of the term of which ="trms">system of vision='qstn'>?
="trms">world ="trms">present to the subject in ="trms">relations of reflection='qstn'>?

...three observers by the virtue of their unmediated, unobstructed self-="trms">presence

='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*romanticism='lgc'>: (maintained) resistance to externality='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[compare Manet's balcony with Goya's painting Majas on a Balcony='lgc'>]

(Manet's palette cor="trms">responding to) the luminous wavelengths of a new ="trms">technological life="trms">world...

Manet dramatizing (but not lamenting) the evaporation of a cohesive ="trms">world...
(finely assembled) architecture of solitude and separation ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] in a space of a newly ="trms">modern individual autonomy


="trms">modernization of ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (crucial component of the) regime of perceptual adaptability


diagram='lgc'> = optical ="trms">system ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ocular ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*rationalizable spatial account of vision='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vision as reflexive ='lgc'>: property of a subject figured as a ="trms">geometric point (='lgc'>=/= ambiguity and disorganization of ="trms">intersubjective ="trms">relations)
diagram ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coherence
(vison, it is not a coin with double sides, it is rather a labyrinth ='lgc'>--="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desiring subject ='lgc'>=/= point-to-point optical ="trms">system)

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='strcls'>*palpable immediacy of a ="trms">modernized ="trms">presence='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to grasp and inhabit it, then dissolution into self-absorption)
(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Sven plays with that) ='strcls'>*nebulous obscurity of ="trms">presence='strcls'>*

uncertain content of the ="trms">interior

="large lg22" stl="font-size:134%"> (in Manet='lgc'>:) attentive='lgc'>: fluctuating ="trms">membrane, delicate pattern of ="trms">folding and un="trms">folding on to the ="trms">world
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rhythm of opening and closing (this “="trms">social dispersion of ="trms">modernity” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impassive autosufficiency of the individual observer='lgc'>] has become part of European subjectivity, it is good='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>], and i miss it in middle east post="trms">modernism)


Manet tentative splitting of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•figural re="trms">presentational facts
="lsts lst1">•facts of autonomous pictorial substance
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now a European tradition)
(a movement towards “formlessness” very ="trms">different than eastern chaotic ="trms">imagination)

Manet's confident inattention to the object and its coherence


fastening together and grounding ="trms">narrative content


='lgc'>[Manet (and many other 1880 pa="trms">inters) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] problem of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]realism='lgc'>: a ="trms">question of tenuous ="trms">relation between perceptual synthesis and dis="trms">sociation
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">question of ="trms">mimesis

achieving a ='strcls'>*reality-effect='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to hold something together, to “contain” things, ='strcls'>***to ward of experiences of dis="trms">integration='strcls'>***
(the reality-effect is processed and achieved ="trms">differently in ="nms">Iran. how='qstn'>? how ="nms">iranian artists differ from the perceptual logic of ="trms">modernity='qstn'>?)

="large lg22" stl="font-size:118%"> (='lgc'>[Elmira and ="frds scrmbld">Foad's='lgc'>] engagement with the) ambiguities of visual attentiveness

perceptual logic of ="trms">modernity (='lgc'>: two powerful tendencies at work)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*binding together of vision='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{an obsessive holding together of perception to maintain the viability of a functional real ="trms">world='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sealed
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*dynamic of (psychic/economic) exchange='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{dynamic of flux/dispersal='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> barely contained


(Manet's) faciality (a site of pictorial effect)='lgc'>: casual a="trms">morphousness, a surface that no longer discloses ="trms">interiority or self-reflection
(within 19th ='lgc'>+ 20th century ="trms">modernity) face='lgc'>: (par excellence) the substance of expression of the signifier ='lgc'>--(D='lgc'>+G)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list faciality='strcls'>** (exists to serve a signifying ="trms">formula)='lgc'>: the means by which the signifier takes control, the ways it organizes a certain mode of individuated subjectification and collective madness of a ='strcls'>*machine without any content='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Crary > ="ppl">Guattari)

="prgrph">-who returns to the more tightly bound order of faciality='qstn'>? when and why='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulated hierarchy of ="trms">socialized body
...relative ="trms">integrity of the face ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a larger mode of conformity to a dominant reality
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Geert
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>:) when head ceases to be ="trms">coded by the body ='lgc'>==> ‘face’ () ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘body (='lgc'>+ head)’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ multidimensional polyvocal corporeal ="trms">code='lgc'>] over="trms">coded by what we call the Face
(////we have to escape the face and facialization!)

indication of bodies in my peers projects in ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-kinds of subduing and constrain necessary for the construction of an ='strcls'>*organized and inhibited corporeality='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Laura's project)
="prgrph">-="trms">instruments of domestication

fixed pictorial (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a holding action) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social organization



="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> study object of ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">sciences around 1880='lgc'>: perceptual field newly de="trms">composed into various abstract units of sensation ='lgc'>+ related possibilities of synthesis
='lgc'>+ newly invented nervous disorders (hysteria, etc.)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (busy with) fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures of the ="trms">integrity of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disas="trms">sociated fragments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (impairment a="trms">symbolias='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*agnosia='strcls'>*='lgc'>: inability to make any conceptual or ="trms">symbolic identification of an object ='lgc'>~ visual information experienced with a primal strangeness='lgc'>:
“perceptual field ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatic plasticity”
flat perception, no determination of depth object
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> labelled as pathological ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= my amazon project='lgc'>--was a form agnosia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•resistance to ="trms">consuming the ="trms">world in a productive or ="trms">social way
="lsts lst1">•rejection of habitual or conventional patterns of organized perceptual information='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-this is part of the ="trms">phenomenology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>***
de="trms">symbolization of perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Foad

='lgc'>{for Janet:='lgc'>} attention='lgc'>: power of mental synthesis (='lgc'>~ the power of subject to form new perception, to have ="trms">memories)
='lgc'>{for ="ppl">Freud:='lgc'>} attention='lgc'>: dynamic activity of repression

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“='lgc'>[a='lgc'>] ="trms">society recognizes itself and its own ="trms">positivity through the morbid and pathological forms it identifies and invents” (="ppl">="ppl">Crary ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault)

subjectivity='lgc'>: provisional assembly of mobile and mutable components ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attentiveness='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•conscious/voluntary ='lgc'>{task-oriented, higher behaviour='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•automatic/passive ='lgc'>{areas of habitual activity, daydreaming, reverie, ="trms">somnambulant states='lgc'>}


(the state of) the seated woman


='lgc'>[19th century regime of facility='lgc'>]
Clark's “face of ="trms">fashion” (= Manet's blanks), ="trms">fashion would keep one's face from any identity (='lgc'>==> ‘the look’='lgc'>: public, outward, blase, impassive, not bored, not tired, not disdainful, not quite focused on anything)
impersonality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->(="ppl">Benjamin's ="trms">modernity='lgc'>:) public space in which, for the first time, individuals are ="trms">systematically habituated not to return the gaze of the other ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> “chi dadash!='qstn'>?” or “was guckst du='qstn'>?!"='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-for three centuries, the meaning of human face was explained in terms of ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms">language. in 19th century suddenly face occupies a precarious ="trms">position='lgc'>: it is belonging to a human being as a='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•physiological organism
="lsts lst1">•privatized, ="trms">socialized individual subject
='lgc'>--="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>='lgc'>--> split status of face='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symptom of an organism's anatomical and physiological functioning
="lsts lst1">•the mark of the success or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of a process of self-mastery and control (in the ="trms">social construction of a normative individual)

='strcls'>*face='lgc'>: (sign of a disquieting) continuum between the somatic and the ="trms">social='strcls'>*

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boarded on a trance

(Bachelard='lgc'>:) reverie='lgc'>: irreality function ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> keep the psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign nonself (!)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reality function ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adapt to reality='lgc'>: to manufacture works which are realities

="trms">modern flirtation='lgc'>: refusal and the withdrawal of the self are fused with the ="trms">phenomenon of drawing attention to the self (in one indivisible act)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Simmel

="trms">Poetics of Reverie (by Bachelard) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter


how ="frds">Sina works
(in my more recent works i play with) ='lgc'>[no='lgc'>] enactment of visual mastery
='lgc'>[no='lgc'>] ocular potency
="prgrph">-my ="trms">storytelling operates in a state of distraction, in which the stability of the ="trms">story begin to erode ='lgc'>==> breakdown of normative attentive ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the audience finds themselves in a trancelike state ='lgc'>==> condition for mobile and transient synthesis
="prgrph">-i mobilize a set of as="trms">sociative chains that are part of a libidinal economy (that i am part of) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*exceeding the binding logic of the work='strcls'>*


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