Attention functions as the ground for ethics, not merely for personal satisfaction.

Evidence

Coppola’s artwork was an exercise in shared attentiveness. As an artist and teacher of art, Odell has a tender feel for the delicate importance of such socially attuned and conceptually open-ended projects. Many are small or “marginal.” Very few have made any money. But each takes on quiet urgency as Odell reconnoiters the fracklands of her world. Declaring herself “interested in a disciplined deepening of attention,” and insistent that “attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics,” Odell brings forward a vision of being an artist that places attention at the center of the calling. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 375

Categorization

• XREF: Directly states the justice dimension the reader is testing the book’s central bet on: attention as ethical, not just aesthetic. — connects to: Attention is fundamentally a collecting and filtering act for survival.; Attention is an activity that forms persons, not a resource that platforms act upon — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 68; Attention is a shared common resource, not private property. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 479 (+1 more)
• CANDY: The compact claim ‘attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics’ is a quotable line.