{"product_id":"scenes-of-attention-9780231211185","title":"Scenes of Attention","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together beautifully written and diverse perspectives on attention: as phenomenon, scholarly practice, memoir, meditation, metahistory, and art. Required reading in an era of exponential financialization and attention deficit disorder at civilizational scale. -- Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google Research\u003cbr\u003eThese vivid and varied essays are a much-needed antidote to the flattened attention of the click economy. Here are the many dimensions of attention we've been missing: historical, philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and, yes, technological. This timely collection broadens and deepens current debates about the future of attention—and distraction. -- Lorraine Daston, author of \u003ci\u003eRules: A Short History of What We Live By\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScenes of Attention\u003c\/i\u003e is, in all the best ways, scholarly, inspiring, and unsettling. Its diverse contributors address this most urgent of topics so wisely, and articulate the results of their thinking with such readable lucidity, that one feels as if the complexities of attention had been brought freshly before us, in higher definition than before, and with a depth that had previously been foreshortened. -- Christopher Mole, author of \u003ci\u003eAttention Is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully eclectic examination of attention, \u003ci\u003eScenes of Attention \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates this central aspect of mind through different vignettes and rich theoretical perspectives that reveal the diversity of how we attend, how attention is shaped, manipulated and transformed. Accessible and engaging, it will provide ample material for productive reflection. -- Wayne Wu, author of \u003ci\u003eMovements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very stimulating volume, \u003ci\u003eScenes of Attention \u003c\/i\u003erevolves around the question of how best to approach, understand, and respond to the 'crisis of attention' that we all feel, to varying degrees, in the age of hypermediated multitaskery. These essays provide an interdisciplinary inquiry into the most pressing (and enduring) issues around the attention ecology. -- Dominic Pettman, author of \u003ci\u003eInfinite Distraction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Histories of Attention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel\u003cbr\u003e2.  Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles\u003cbr\u003e3.  Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by    Alexandra Hui\u003cbr\u003e4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian Chehirian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Philosophies of Attention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5.  Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor\u003cbr\u003e6.  Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian\u003cbr\u003e7.  Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri\u003cbr\u003e8.  Dispatch from the Jhāna Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John Tresch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Attention, Technology, Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll\u003cbr\u003e10. Attentional ‘Ownership’: Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan\u003cbr\u003e11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks\u003cbr\u003eNick Seaver\u003cbr\u003e12. Medium Focus, by Joanna Fiduccia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Endgame(s)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller\u003cbr\u003e14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400378229079,"sku":"9780231211185","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231211185.jpg?v=1730470545","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scenes-of-attention-9780231211185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}