Exposition must signal its own complicity through tempo and tentativeness.

Evidence

In short, it leads to awareness, not only of how lucky I am to be alive, but to ongoing patterns of cultural and ecological devastation around me—and the inescapable part that I play in it, should I choose to recognize it or not. In other words, simple awareness is the seed of responsibility. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 41 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Sustained attention inevitably yields awareness of complicity and responsibility — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 41

Broader Connections