A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience
Evidence
If ‘I’ can only be attentive to something to the extent that we pay attention to it – and if collective attention must be considered primary with respect to any effort at individual attention – this is precisely because this common ground of clichés in perpetual reprocessing conditions my ability to identify the phenomena encountered in my environment. The attention economy is in truth fundamentally collectivist. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Under ordinary circumstances, this seems like a perfectly random assortment of goings-on. But under the perfectly non-ordinary conditions of our collective confrontation with human fracking, each of these activities becomes a valuable part of what we all need to bring to the barricades, what we need to bring to the banquet we’ll share once we’ve walled out the dark artists of spirit-commodification! — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
When a group is together, each person (after a focus is established, or not) finishes a sentence beginning with “WE COULD…” in as many ways as possible. Time could be limited, or open-ended. The sentences could be recorded or not. The group could vote on subsequent action according to the sentences, or just enjoy imagining what they could be doing. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326; The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1018; The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 437 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality
#expands(0.82) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 - A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer
#expands(0.80) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326 - The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices
#exemplifies(0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437 - Shared everyday experiences can counteract worldview-driven repulsion in couples
#exemplifies(0.80) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 484 - Shared humanity overcomes preconceived enemy divisions between strangers
#expands(0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 190 - Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal
#exemplifies(0.75) - The ‘us’ experience means being objects together before alienating others.
#expands(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1018