[...]differed
displaced
denied
(image of ="trms">spectacle)
derealized
drained of ="trms">presence

='strcls'>*attentiveness of an observing subject='strcls'>*='lgc'> = site of increasingly specialized operations of power

...a twilight state of restricted consciousness ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Durkheimian solidarity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is at stake is that) the autonomy of the individual is reduced

='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> importance of Seurat's work ='lgc'>: to have intuited ='strcls'>**how the collapse of scenic space allowed new ="trms">imaginary ="trms">figuration of immediacy='strcls'>** (of a regressive unity based on a corporeal engagement of the ="trms">spectator) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esther, ="nms">apass, OSP, ="frds scrmbld">Femke

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> Seurat sensed something fundamental about the industrialization of contemplation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now fully matured in Hollywood cinema) ='lgc'>+ (he anticipated, like Wagner) the ='strcls'>*effects of a phantasmatic luminous image on which essence had been displaced by appearance='strcls'>*

(you can still) escape into the psychological time (but don't erase the sense of the obdurate ="trms">historical conditions out of which your dreams of equilibrium emerges)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> Seurat's resisted the temptation of the phantasmagoric and of myth (='lgc'>=/= Wagner)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are we the hairs of Seurat='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•exposure of ="trms">technical premises
="lsts lst1">•subversion of any stable “formation” (or ="trms">Gestalt, on which the al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of the myth depends)
='lgc'>--Buchloh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***avant-garde='lgc'>: a continually renewed struggle over the de="trms">finition of cultural meaning, the discovery and re="trms">presentation of new audiences, and the development of new strategies to counteract and develop resistence against the tendency of the ideological ="trms">apparatuses of the culture industry to occupy and control all practices and spaces of re="trms">presentation='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i am ="trms">interested in Walt Disney and Hollywood and Qur'an)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to produce incompatibilities='strcls'>* (as an artistic strategy, visual or ="trms">epistemic and otherwise; to make opacity, hostility to virtuosity and expressionism, )

your work could be adjacent to ____
but not identical to ____

your work might be built out if mechanisms for the production of subjective ="trms">response ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is never reducible to them
='at'>@OSP, ="frds scrmbld">Femke



Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (nonoptical) art of attention
music ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of experience ='lgc'>=/= an art of time

(unstable status of an apprentice observer in 1900s) Cezanne='lgc'> = reinvention of synthesis (='lgc'>=/= Manet and Seurat's strategies of binding, homeostasis, fixation)

="ppl">="ppl">Crary highlighting the highly contested ="trms">nature of the ="trms">questions of attention (possibly of pure perception, ="trms">presence, etc. in 1890s) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recreation of attentive ="trms">presence amid the impact of new conceptualizations and organizations of motion, ="trms">memory, temporality (='lgc'>+ emerging ="trms">technological arrangements)

='lgc'>[one of many sites in the late 19th century where a crisis in perception is diagnosed:='lgc'>]
Cezanne ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Husserl='lgc'>: attempt to bypass the accumulated cultural and commonsense assumptions about the ="trms">world as it appears in consciousness (="trms">heritage of ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Foad... ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> and ="trms">fable of the artist='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forgetting everything and make an image of what you see ='strcls'>*beneath the imposed order of humanity='strcls'>* (19th century preoccupation with “innocent vision” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== to be completely estranged from the ="trms">world ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Schopenhauer) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> access to things-in-themselves
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Husserl ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pure form of consciousness ='strcls'>*stripped of all accretions of habit and ="trms">socialization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “seeing essences”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> their work challenged (sought to exceed) features of perception that ="trms">apparatuses (of production and ="trms">consumption) regulated and standardized

="ppl">Husserl
attempt of description of objectivists in a certain atemporal fixedness ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{attention='lgc'>: heightened awareness of a narrowed or focused range of perception, operation of selection, ="trms">question of existence of content in consciousness, empathic function which belongs in the sense of intuitional experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= psychophysical, as="trms">sociationist, sensationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, atomistic accounts of perception and cognition ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> how re="trms">liable and consistent the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the ="trms">world is possible ='lgc'>+ (classical model of vision='lgc'>:) privileged point of view of a perceiving subject from which the objectivity of the ="trms">world could be apprehended='lgc'>}
issue of cognitive and perceptual synthesis
="lsts lst1">•to resecure an unconditional basis for logic and ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•to escape from refined habitual patterns of perception inherent in various aspects of rationalization and compassion of experience in 1890s and 1900s (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamic, kinetic, distracted texture of ="trms">modern sensory life ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> attention='lgc'>: malleable entropic force susceptible to fatigue, distraction, and external management)
="lsts lst1">•to quest for the logic of meaning ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> primordial oneness of consciousness
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (for ="ppl">Husserl) attention appears and appertains in the possibility of an ='strcls'>*impersonal, preindividual, transcendental sphere free of anything ="trms">="trms">empirical, of anything spatiotemporal='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> attention='lgc'>: intentional act with an absolute structure, quasi-machine searchlight for an unwavering mode of looking at the act of looking
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> amid the dynamic dissolution of ="trms">modernization (a ="trms">world in which previously stable meanings, signs, ="trms">social ="trms">relations were being uprooted, made exchangeable, and put into circulation) ="ppl">Husserl proposes ='lgc'>[in a hopeless quest='lgc'>] a monolithe ="trms">technique of attention (to discern a halo of absolute authenticity around every object or ="trms">relation) to determine the universal structure of (the authenticity of) subjective life="trms">world ='lgc'>[unable to go beyond ‘pre-cinematographic conditions’ (='lgc'>~ movement thought only from the anchorage of a static “pose”)='lgc'>]
 ='lgc'>--Varela='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Husserl's (='lgc'>+ MerleauPonty) turn towards experience (the “things themselves”) was entirely theatrical ='lgc'>: lacked any ="trms">pragmatic dimension ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>]

what Cezanne did seek to “suspend” (to forget)='qstn'>?

(sensitivity to) perceptual experiences that had been ignored, marginalized, or incompatible (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> un="trms">articulated)='lgc'>--within='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organization of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about vision
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Cezanne's) “attention to anomalous='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***engage a discordant exterior='strcls'>*** (that takes a hold on your recognizable ="trms">world) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our ="trms">heritage in art='lgc'>]

Cezanne='lgc'>: “perception='lgc'> = process of its formation” ='lgc'>: confronting and inhabiting the instability of perception ='lgc'>=/= recording the evanescent appearances of the ="trms">world

(Cezanne ='lgc'>+ Manet's discovery='lgc'>:) looking at one thing
=X='lgc'>=> fuller and more in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive grasp of its ="trms">presence (='lgc'>~ rich immediacy)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> perceptual dis="trms">integration and loss, breakdown as intelligible form ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> invention and discovery of previously unknown ="trms">religions and organizations of forces

dissolution inherent in attentiveness ='lgc'>==support='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Cezanne's) radical de="trms">symbolization of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ perpetually modulating set of ="trms">relations between the exterior and sensations

Cezanne attentive to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•activity of the eye
="lsts lst1">•visual sensation
="lsts lst1">•myriad intricacies of subjective vision
="lsts lst1">•(physiological) limitations of sensory experience
="lsts lst1">•the body (its pulsation, temporalities, ="trms">intersection of that body with a ="trms">world of ="trms">transitions, of events, of becomings)
="lsts lst1">•discontinuous com="trms">position of visual field (to its “concentric” format)

19th century ="trms">scientific research ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
="lsts lst1">•comprehensive account of human perception
="lsts lst1">•disjointed ="trms">nature of the visual field
="lsts lst1">•central area of retina='lgc'>: photoreceptor cells
="lsts lst2">◦peripheral area of retina='lgc'>: sensitive to movement
="lsts lst1">•subjective visual field ='lgc'><='lgc'>== complex aggregate processes of the eye movement (“short fast jumps” ='lgc'>=/= instantaneous intake of an image) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new psychological model of the human subject

acuity did not cor="trms">respond strictly to localized anatomy but rather was the product of a dynamic ="trms">relation of fovea and periphery as well as external luminous factors

hearing='lgc'>: aggregate perpetual process

Wundt's optical model (polarity between='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Blickfeld='lgc'>: field of consciousness
="lsts lst1">•Blickpunkt='lgc'>: focus of consciousness (where apperception occur) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= attention

='lgc'>=/=
Locke, ="ppl">Descartes, ="ppl">Leibniz
consciousness='lgc'> = camera obscura

apperception='lgc'>: focalization of some content in consciousness ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> structure experience

='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is at stake (with Wundt) is a cognitive modality part of a larger ='strcls'>***="trms">modern process of decentering='strcls'>***

(='lgc'>+ James ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a ="trms">question of the primacy of ‘="trms">transitive’ states in which the shifting fringes of perception were constitutive features of psychic “reality”


="trms">modernization of perception
center ='lgc'>=/= periphery
dispersed functioning of sensory ="trms">response

(how in 19th century capacitie[...]