Five Heideggerian categories of attentional pull explain how things claim our attention.
Evidence
Throop & Duranti (2015, pp. 1060–62) distinguish between five kinds of what they, invoking Heidegger, call “attentional pull” directed toward things that are (a) ready to hand; (b) present, but not ready to hand (because they are broken, say); (c) usually ready to hand but suddenly absent; (d) new, unexpected, or unusually present to senses; and (e) directing us toward something new. — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 49
Categorization
- QUESTION: Category (e) is vague — ‘directing us toward something new’ seems to overlap with (d). Worth checking the original source for what distinguishes them.
- XREF: connects to: Heideggerian letting-be requires active attention, not passive indifference — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 588; Heidegger’s pre-ontological comprehension of being escapes the vicious circle — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 155; Heidegger defines human reality through inseparable moments of world, being-in, and being
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Broader Connections
- Heideggerian letting-be requires active attention, not passive indifference
#expands(0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 588 - Heidegger’s pre-ontological comprehension of being escapes the vicious circle
#corroborates(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 155 - Heidegger defines human reality through inseparable moments of world, being-in, and being
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