[...]eption='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 [...]