Aesthetic apparatuses let us question the blind spots of our own subjectivity.

Evidence

The main virtue of meta-attentional engagement is precisely that it helps us to question the limits, the presuppositions, the blind spots and the other dead zones of our subjectivity: by repackaging the focusing, deframing and reframing effects through which we perceive reality, narrative and aesthetic apparatuses lead us to reconsider and readjust the parameters of our subjectivation. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s notion of aesthetic experience as a critical corrective to instrumental reason. — connects to: An ethnographic portrait can openly confess its own subjectivity

Broader Connections

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