Shared attention to a contemporaneous event grounds intersubjectivity without needing shared content of experience

Evidence

In analyzing this situation, Schutz arrived at another central idea, temporal coordination. In Zaner’s assessment (e.g., 1964), the reciprocal interlocking of the time dimension is for Schutz the core phenomenon of intersubjectivity. Why did Schutz associate intersubjectivity with time, which is a connection not commonly made in sociology? Schutz’s ideas were based on objects observed to move or change over time. The experience of such events is temporal, in that it is constituted step by step as each event unfolds. Two persons watching the same event are brought into a “state of intersubjectivity” by their experience evidently changing in similar ways, in response to what unfolds. The basis of this sort of we experience, for Schutz, was the temporal immediacy of events. … Instead, he left the subject recognizing the other as a fellow human being here and now, evidently paying attention to the same event. What turned this experience into a we relation, according to Schutz, was the contemporaneousness of an event, the subject’s experience of it, and the indications of the other’s attentiveness to it: “Since we are growing older together during the flight of the bird, and since I have evidence, in my own observations, that you were paying attention to the same event, I may say that we saw a bird in flight” (1964, p. 25). — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 65

Categorization

• QUESTION: How would this temporal-coordination account of intersubjectivity apply to traders jointly attending to the same screen or ticker feed?
• XREF: Connects to my interest in the phenomenology of screen-based markets and how shared temporal attention to price movements constitutes collective emotion. — connects to: Joint attention requires co-presence, excluding algorithm-mediated influences — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 246; Intersubjectivity arises from synchronizing inner time streams, not from shared mental content — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 67; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (+2 more)

Related

• Intersubjectivity arises from synchronizing inner time streams, not from shared mental content (similarity 0.83)
• A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience (similarity 0.78)
• Synchronized collective watching sustains the production system (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Intersubjectivity arises from synchronizing inner time streams, not from shared mental content #corroborates (0.85) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 67
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #expands (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience #exemplifies (0.80)
• The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices #exemplifies (0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437