Attention serves communal needs rather than minority growth interests

Evidence

In terms of environmental wisdom (ecosophy) and awareness of the polyphonic properties of our attentional dynamics (echology), these questions call forth a double task. On the one hand, establishing (physical, social, legal) environments that will allow the greatest number of us to modulate our attention according to our own desires and our communal needs – rather than in accordance with the interests of a minority and a growth agenda that is dragging us all towards the abyss. And, on the other hand, learning to adapt our attention in new ways so as to make other figures and other values appear in the common ground by which we are constituted. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 548

Categorization

• DEFINE: Opens the conclusion by defining the double task of attention echology — environmental design plus self-adaptation.
• XREF: connects to: Attention slowly forms through care and constitutes the social bond — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 489; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121; Economic accounts of attention falsely derive the collective from individual activity — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 79 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Attentional alignment with others generates communal powers no individual could reach alone #corroborates (0.90) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 111
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #corroborates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• Joint attention practices generate shared political power. #corroborates (0.82)
• Economic accounts of attention falsely derive the collective from individual activity #corroborates (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 79
• The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users #complicates (0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83