A listener is always part of the environment being observed, never outside it

Evidence

This context, of course, also included me. I remember going for a walk near my parents’ house once and hearing a scrub jay shrieking in a valley oak tree. It was such a good example of a scrub jay shriek that I was about to get out my phone and record it, when I realized that it was shrieking at me (to go away). As Pauline Oliveros writes in Deep Listening “When you enter an environment where there are birds, insects or animals, they are listening to you completely. You are received. Your presence may be the difference between life and death for the creatures of the environment. Listening is survival!” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 526

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Deep Listening background — the chapter squarely uses Oliveros’ method, supporting the mixed-method question. — connects to: The act of attentive listening actively enlivens the surrounding environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 347; Consciousness never coincides with itself because it exists for a witness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 329; Animals listen completely to their environment because listening is survival — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 90 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The act of attentive listening actively enlivens the surrounding environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 347; Consciousness never coincides with itself because it exists for a witness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 329; Animals listen completely to their environment because listening is survival — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 90 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention always responds to something else and never rests still. #complicates (0.74)
• Consciousness always reaches toward objects; it is fundamentally aboutness #complicates (0.71) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 152