Twelve Theses on Attention (Hardcover)

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Twelve Theses on Attention By The Friends of Attention, D. Graham Burnett (Editor), Stevie Knauss (Editor) Cover Image
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A meditation on the ethics and politics of attention

"True attention takes the unlivable, and makes it livable." So say the Friends of Attention in their visionary and epigrammatic analysis of attentional freedom in our time. Directly confronting the pathologies of our attention economy, this slim text, written by an underground collective of activist-critics, utopian dreamers, and peaceful insurgents, stakes out the terrain of a new politics--one that centers on the truly human use of our capacity to attend.

It is widely recognized that unprecedented technologies, operating at unprecedented scales and with near-total ubiquity, continuously "frack" our faculties of eye and mind, extracting revenue by capturing our most precious and intimate resource: our attention. What can be done? Informed by the radical traditions of figures as diverse as Simone Weil and adrienne maree brown, and drawing on contemporary philosophy of mind no less than the eccentricities of slacker-surrealists, Twelve Theses on Attention offers a surprising and lyrical answer.

The book is richly illustrated with stills from a set of related films by a diverse group of young filmmakers.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780691239828
ISBN-10: 0691239827
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: March 15th, 2022
Pages: 52
Language: English