What was background attention now evokes the past most powerfully

Evidence

It’s those things lurking at the background of attention, things that we took for granted at the time, which now evoke the past most powerfully. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 325

Categorization

• XREF: It’s those things lurking at the background of attention, things that we took for granted at the time, which now evoke the past most powerfully. — connects to: Degrading music into audio-fog makes it more evocative rather than less — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 264; Functional music designed for the periphery acquires haunting power it never had as foreground. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 314; Bringing functional background culture into the foreground paradoxically destroys its original function — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 325 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The present realizes what was essential in the past #expands (0.90)
• What was newly vivid to one generation reads as insipid to later readers #exemplifies (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 650
• Automatic attention is sedimented past attention and belongs in any attention ecology #expands (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 373