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="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 ha[...]