Attention becomes world-constituting only when shared with others.

Evidence

It would not have been the same if I had gone to Calabazas Creek alone. The moment that Josh and I combined the fragments in our memories into the same body of water, the creek came not just to individual attention but to collective attention. It became part of a shared reality, a reference point outside of each of us. Picking our way over the riprap in this sunken, otherwise-unnoticed pathway—attending to the creek with the presence of our bodies—we were also rendering a version of the world in which the creek does appear, alongside its tributaries and its mountain and all the things growing and swimming within it. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 437

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows that ‘attention as world-constitution’ is not solipsistic but collective — key to defending Odell against a withdrawal misreading.
• XREF: connects to: Shared world-making requires joint attention in physical co-presence — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 318