Lack of collective attention lets polluting production dominate desirable lifestyles
Evidence
This echology will have to endeavour to repeat step by step the lessons to be drawn from the concrete alternatives that abound at a local level. It will also have to make use of the discrepancies that affect every echo (temporal delay, variation of volume, change of tone). While our attentional apparatuses must be periodically re-energized by 1:1 scale, jumps in scale are indispensable to an echology based on stepping back and stepping to one side. It is because of a lack of collective attention that our most desirable lifestyles are being crushed by modes of production that can only ever be modes of pollution. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 350
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the punning term ‘echology’ — an ecology of echoes and attention at scale, distinct from the chapter’s coarser governance terms.
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism had to teach people to stop paying attention to pollution. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 324; Individual consumption effects cannot be isolated from production-side forces