[...] 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:112%"> 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)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:136%">
='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

(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'>?)
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