Aesthetic laboratories protect attention by suspending communicational pressures
Evidence
An attention ecology must, therefore, understand and actively defend the environmental conditions necessary for these artistic practices and aesthetic experiences to develop, sheltered from the pressure of profitability that tightly limits what can come through commercial channels. Aesthetic laboratories should be understood as VACUOLES which allow for the temporary suspension of the demands of communicational attention, so as to be able to concentrate full attention on a privileged cultural object over an extended period. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 454
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘vacuole’ as the concept of a protected space suspending communicational attention demands.
- XREF: connects to: Art can function as attention-holding architecture against distraction — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 58; Artworks function as training apparatuses for deliberately directing attention — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 387; All aesthetic venues share a meta-attentional engagement structure — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 459 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Art can function as attention-holding architecture against distraction
#corroborates(0.85) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 58 - Artworks function as training apparatuses for deliberately directing attention
#expands(0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 387 - Attention activism requires dedicated spaces for collective experimentation and care
#expands(0.80) - All aesthetic venues share a meta-attentional engagement structure
#expands(0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 459 - Diverse attentional practices form a common arsenal against attention extraction
#expands(0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 436