aron
@aronshelton
aron
@aronshelton

close attention inevitably facilitates transformation. Tsing calls this “the arts of noticing”, tactics for thinking without either the abstraction produced by quantification or deeply held assumptions of progress. If we are “agnostic about where we are going, we might look for what has been ignored”
“Beauty is the mystery of life. It’s not in the eye, it’s in the mind—and it’s because of awareness of perfection in the mind. As a matter of fact, I think that we see perfection and then we see beauty, you know, that they’re different. Like I see a, I look down a valley and I think, it’s just perfect. Perfection is easier to see than beauty. You
... See moreAn attention ecology goes against the idea of an attention economy, in which one’s attention is directly monetized and pitted against other things that are also meant to co-opt your attention.
Within the architecture of a project, whether it’s a printed piece or a website or something else, we’re always trying to deeply consider how one’s attention
... See moreAnimating Questions and Humans In The Loop
The questions become less like, “What will technology do in the future?" and more like, "What does human sensing do now?"