Name: Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
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Author: Justin E. H. Smith
ISBN: 9780231211185

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Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Justin E. H. Smith

D. Graham Burnett

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Author

Justin E. H. Smith

Language

English

Pages

376

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9780231211185

Synopsis "Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses "

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.

Justin E. H. Smith

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Justin E. H. Smith (Reno, United States, 1972) holds a PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University. From 2003 to 2013, he served as a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal, and he is currently a professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université de Paris. He is also a member of the sphere research laboratory at the same university. In 2019 and 2020, he participated in the international fellowship program of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and since 2020 he has been writing critical essays and philosophy in his digital newsletter Justin E. H. Smith’s Hinternet.
He has written numerous articles in specialized journals and frequently contributes to publications such as The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Art in America, among others. He has compiled, among others, the volumes The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy (2006) and Embodiment. A History (2017). Additionally, he is the author of the books Divine Machines. Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011); Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference. Race in Early Modern Philosophy (2015), and The Philosopher. A History in Six Types (2016).

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