Attention practices
Fodder for experiments in attention and artmaking
Attention practices
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place ... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
I think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more
rayne fisher-quann • Choosing to walk
How to priority-stack ideas that are still vague? Right now, I am just apportioning a bit of time to pursue this, a bit of time to that, and making progress on none of them.
“The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. That creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggest that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought
“an art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space”
The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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The Battle for Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/the-battle-for-attention
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