Artistic activity is a distinct training ground for free 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
Category: Causal Relationships
- SEED: Argumentative frameword for defending humanities funding: not as cultural polish, but as the only institutionalized space that trains free attention.
Related
- All aesthetic venues share a meta-attentional engagement structure (similarity 0.79)
- Great art creates attentional situations, not just artifacts (similarity 0.78)