[...]al 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'>==> renderin[...]