Genuine attention is astonishment rather than anticipation

Evidence

There is a fundamental opposition between two attitudes, the one consists in inflecting perception in the direction of some anticipation, the other in seeking an innocence in the eye and the senses, in an opening of spirit, a welcoming of the other as other. Through this respect for the object, we give ourselves over to the object, much more than we subordinate the object to our past. The true name of attention is not anticipation but astonishment. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 543

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the whole ‘attention as capture for profit’ framing of the attention economy — the wellspring is curiosity, not focusing. — connects to: Astonishment already contains the narrative arc of the incomplete striving toward the future — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 245
• SEED: Article angle: reframing online distraction as a healthy overflow of astonishment rather than a cognitive deficit.