Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices

Evidence

The attention of the occupiers is by no means devoid of abstract analyses, also based in overarching concerns – it is ‘globally’ minded since it turns on questions at a planetary scale, like climate imbalance. In their promotion of urban gardens, they are trying to inscribe this place in an alternative economy of local flows, and slow, convivial and singular methods of production. But, above all, their attention is based in proximate collective practices, rooted in the materiality and the lived history of a territory, woven from the concrete invention of alternative social bonds. We are here at 1:1 scale. Their attention is ‘radical’ because it is rooted in the vegetables and the social relations that they cultivate from day to day. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314

Categorization

• SEED: The 1:1 vs. scaled-map contrast could anchor an essay on how attention scale — megapixel aerial views versus hand-on-territory — determines environmental politics.
• XREF: connects to: Two rival attention regimes define managerial and radical ecology — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 309; Attention operates as an ecosystem of echoes and variations rather than transmissions — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 531; The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 437 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention operates as an ecosystem of echoes and variations rather than transmissions #qualifies (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 531
• The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices #expands (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437