This book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature.
This book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature.
D. Graham Burnett is a professor of history and the history of science at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the IHUM interdisciplinary doctoral program. His scholarly books on cartography, empire, optics, and the oceans have examined the changing understanding of nature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Burnett is associated with the research collective ESTAR(SER) and the activist coalition "The Friends of Attention," with whom he coauthored Twelve Theses on Attention (2022). Justin E. H. Smith is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité and a member of the SPHERE Laboratory for Research in the History of Science. He is the author of five books, most recently The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning (2022), and a frequent contributor to a number of popular publications. In 2015 a main-belt asteroid, 4.5 kilometers in diameter, was named after him: 13585 Justinsmith (1993 TC20).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith Part I. Histories of Attention 1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel 2. Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles 3. Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by Alexandra Hui 4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian Chehirian Part II. Philosophies of Attention 5. Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor 6. Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian 7. Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri 8. Dispatch from the Jh¿na Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John Tresch Part III. Attention, Technology, Culture 9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll 10. Attentional 'Ownership': Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan 11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks Nick Seaver 12. Medium Focus, by Joanna Fiduccia Part IV. Endgame(s) 13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller 14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford Bibliography List of Contributors Index
Introduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith Part I. Histories of Attention 1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel 2. Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles 3. Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by Alexandra Hui 4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian Chehirian Part II. Philosophies of Attention 5. Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor 6. Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian 7. Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri 8. Dispatch from the Jh¿na Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John Tresch Part III. Attention, Technology, Culture 9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll 10. Attentional 'Ownership': Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan 11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks Nick Seaver 12. Medium Focus, by Joanna Fiduccia Part IV. Endgame(s) 13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller 14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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