Books
|
Buy Now
Scenes of Attention - Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
Loot Price: R2,563
Discovery Miles 25 630
|
|
Scenes of Attention - Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth
century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of
attentiveness—to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to
what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great anxiety over
attention? What is at stake in understanding attention and the
challenges it faces? This book investigates attention from a range
of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history,
anthropology, art history, and comparative literature. Each chapter
begins with a concrete scene whose protagonists are trying—and
often failing—to attend. Authors examine key moments in the
history of the study of attention; pose attention as a
philosophical problem; explore the links between attention,
culture, and technology; and consider the significance of attention
for conceptualizations of human subjectivity. Readers encounter
nineteenth-century experiments in boredom, ornithologists conveying
sound through field notations, wearable attention-enhancing
prosthetics, students using online learning platforms, and
inquiries into attention as a cognitive state and moral virtue.
Amid mounting concern about digital mediation of experience, the
rise of “surveillance capitalism,” and the commodification of
attention, Scenes of Attention deepens the thinking that is needed
to protect the freedom of attention and the forms of life that make
it possible.
General
Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Editors: |
D. Graham Burnett
• Justin E. H. Smith
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-21118-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-231-21118-X |
Barcode: |
9780231211185 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.