Deep attention occurs in a relational space that extraction systems partition and plunder

Evidence

(Pause, for just a moment, to feel what Stiegler is getting at: that within each of us, within YOU, is an infinity that can be perceived through deep attention to the world around us. That to give attention to objects and to other people is to be present to one’s ongoing and unending coming-into-being. This coming-into-being happens in a relational space between the “I” and the beings and entities we encounter in our daily lives—precisely the space that has been partitioned, and quantified, and optimized, and strapped to a system of psychic extraction that fractures our minds and plunders our eyeballs.) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 66

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Feeds the ‘Grafting & Growth’ worldbuilding thread: this relational space being ‘partitioned, quantified, optimized’ echoes how trees as infrastructure are instrumentalized against their own relational ecosystem.
• DEEPTHINKING: The move from an infinity-within to an enforceable warrant for resisting an extractive system is the chapter’s central philosophical bet and deserves deep scrutiny.