Aesthetic experience acts as a laboratory for reworking values

Evidence

As a reflection on the processes of valorization, attention ecology comes, therefore, to play a central role in denouncing the illusions and deceptions which, through certain modes of evaluation, seriously and tragically distort the values that we bestow (or that we should bestow) on external things. But what the particular case of the literary attention valorized by Nicholas Carr brings home is the role played by our aesthetic experiences in general as VALORIZATION LABORATORIES: in line with Jacques Rancière’s characterization of a ‘reconfiguration of the distribution of the sensible’, the immersion in an aesthetic experience leads to the valorization of previously unexpected sensations and feelings, and/or to the modification of associated valorizations. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 429

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘valorization laboratories’ as the core concept of this chapter.
• XREF: Bridges Frankfurt School critique of value to Rancière’s aesthetics and to digital attention scholarship. — connects to: Aesthetic experience functions as political apprenticeship for future freedom.; Diluted aesthetic experiences in mass media spread value reprocessing to broad audiences — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 450; Art’s felt experience is suppressed by learned critical discourse — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1135 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Diluted aesthetic experiences in mass media spread value reprocessing to broad audiences #expands (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 450
• Art’s felt experience is suppressed by learned critical discourse #expands (0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1135