Art and the humanities are special zones for practicing emancipatory attention.
Evidence
Art and literature and the humanities may seem gratuitous, even “irrelevant” to the urgent challenges of our moment. But artistic and interpretive activities are special zones for thinking and practicing emancipatory and authentically HUMAN forms of attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 366
Categorization
- QUESTION: What makes attention emancipatory as distinct from merely human? The binarization of human versus industrial attention is doing heavy lifting and needs specification.
- XREF: connects to: Artworks can function as prostheses that train attention on the familiar environment — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 365; Great art creates attentional situations, not just artifacts — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 383; Artworks function as training apparatuses for deliberately directing attention — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 387 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Artworks can function as prostheses that train attention on the familiar environment — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 365; Great art creates attentional situations, not just artifacts — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 383; Artworks function as training apparatuses for deliberately directing attention — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 387 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Artistic activity is a distinct training ground for free attention
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