Attention can be directed without altering or removing its object

Evidence

Eleanor Coppola has designated a number of windows in all parts of San Francisco as visual landmarks. Her purpose in this project is to bring to the attention of the whole community, art that exists in its own context, where it is found, without being altered or removed to a gallery situation. … Coppola instead casts a subtle frame over the whole of the city itself, a light but meaningful touch that recognizes art that exists where it already is. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete instance of attention-holding architecture that frames without altering — central to Odell’s redirection claim.
• XREF: connects to: Attention can be deliberately wielded, not just reclaimed; Attention necessarily requires ignoring competing stimuli to select one focus — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1154; Directed attention does not weaken world-consciousness but relegates the world to ground — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 881
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Attention can be deliberately wielded, not just reclaimed; Attention necessarily requires ignoring competing stimuli to select one focus — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1154; Directed attention does not weaken world-consciousness but relegates the world to ground — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 881

Broader Connections

• Attention necessarily requires ignoring competing stimuli to select one focus #complicates (0.78) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1154