Attention and care mirror each other as shadow and light

Evidence

In more abstract terms, one might think of attention as the “shadow” of care. If the former often connotes investment, exploitation, and scarcity, the latter, as has also been alluded to above, tends to be associated with involvement, engagement, and generosity and may thus be conceived as “loving attention” (Thelen 2015). — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 66

Categorization

• DEFINE: Posits attention as the ‘shadow’ of care — a generative metaphor framing the two as paired opposites.
• SEED: Article angle: reframing attention-economy critique through care theory — what a genuinely non-exploitative economy of attention would look like.
• XREF: connects to: Attention slowly forms through care and constitutes the social bond — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 489

Related

• Attention slowly forms through care and constitutes the social bond (similarity 0.82)
• Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy (similarity 0.81)
• Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource (similarity 0.81)
• The economic paradigm distorts our understanding of how attention actually functions (similarity 0.80)
• Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. (similarity 0.80)
• Attention functions as a political economy embedded in specific temporal contexts (similarity 0.79)
• Attention is an interactive relation to one’s life-sustaining environment, not a resource (similarity 0.79)
• Economic metaphors about attention conceal more than they reveal by hiding key differences (similarity 0.79)
• The attention economy rests on a hidden false premise about attention. (similarity 0.79)
• Attention is the substrate of care for self, community, and planet. (similarity 0.78)
• Anthropology has studied attention mostly implicitly, not as an explicit topic (similarity 0.78)
• Attention functions as the ground for ethics, not merely for personal satisfaction. (similarity 0.78)