Managerial anxiety is the intended product, not a side effect
Evidence
Aligning yourself with an ‘attention ecology’ (still to come) is therefore deceptive so long as you have not clarified which ecology you are talking about. More than a simple question of scale, what separates the two forms of ecology, demonstrated exaggeratedly by this example from Dijon, is the rooting of an environmental sensitivity in social practices inventing concrete alternatives to the ravages of capitalism – in the name of which we would do well to state the PRIMACY OF ROOTED ATTENTION. As a good manager, concerned with sustainability, the urbanist is of course right to pay attention to the environmental impact of the projects he designs. We may be grateful to him, and the show of strength of a few radical activists should not condemn his work. When a conflict breaks out between a distant architects’ office, duly integrated into the global game of the capitalist marketplace, and a grassroots collective struggling to defend or establish an alternative sociality, heterogeneous to this game – as is the case here, but also with certain dam projects and in the struggles of native populations – the primacy of rooted attention encourages us to invest a priori a higher degree of trust in the radicals than in the managers. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 317 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Rooted attention should be trusted more than managerial attention in conflicts — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 317; Managerialist surveillance generates anxiety deliberately, not as a side effect
Related
- Rooted attention should be trusted more than managerial attention in conflicts (similarity 0.87)
- Radicals and managers jointly expand collective attention through their conflict. (similarity 0.79)
- Scaled-down abstract plans structure managerial attention from above (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Rooted attention should be trusted more than managerial attention in conflicts
#complicates(0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 317