Attention creates a shared space beyond both instrumental logic and endless suspension

Evidence

In this fashion, James’s account rescues attention from the jaws of antinomy. Attention is no mere tool; it creates a space beyond the stultifying operational logics of technology and capital. Yet it is not an endless, sublime adjournment, either. It moves in the world of frailty and pain. It bears the promise of healing—or at least of consolation. It is the true gift of the open. It is where we meet in that openness, and make space for what unfolds. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 75

Categorization

• XREF: This third-way attention as ‘gift of the open’ connects to the reader’s standing theme of attunement and presence as forms of resistance. — connects to: Interpretive codes function as modes of attention directed at textual phenomena — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1686; Free-floating attention suspends reasoning constraints to enable resonant re-association — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 336; All aesthetic venues share a meta-attentional engagement structure — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 459 (+3 more)
• APHORISMS: ‘An invitation that is also a generous and vital offering’ and the frame of attention as where we meet in openness reads as durable wisdom about how to be with others.